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Saturday was not a great day. It began when I woke up early, put on the telly, and saw the cricket score. Having written that Australia couldn't possibly take 20 wickets, and backed my belief with hard cash by laying the Aussies for the Perth Test,[b] Mitchell Johnson[/b] had turned the whole Ashes series on its head. What's more, I'd broken one of my normal golden rules of gambling and not "gone green" when I had the opportunity 24 hours earlier. Next I spent five hours stuck in snow on the M5. I was two miles from the next junction when I heard that Birmingham's game with Newcastle was off, and it took forever before I could get there and turn round to go back home again. The wait wasn't helped, as a boyhood[b] West Ham[/b] fan, by listening to them struggling along at Blackburn. I...