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For generations, the path to journalistic success in Britain has run almost inevitably through London. David Foot, who has died aged 92, broke the rule and achieved a high reputation as an outstanding writer, for the Guardian above all, without ever deserting his Bristol base and not often leaving his beloved West Country.
Among his cricket-writing colleagues in particular, he had a unique reputation that combined respect for his elegant writing and remarkable affection for his gentle good nature. No one was a more welcome sight at the door of a county press box. A Footy day meant shared wisdom, zero malice and his delicious chuckle.
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Its 4am and freezing. I am tip toeing downstairs so as not to wake the rest of the house. England are playing India in the first test - compulsive viewing nurtured by my Dad, who was blind from the time I was 12 years old.
Dad loved listening to the cricket on the radio, and though he moaned big time about Johnners, Blofeld and Trevor Bailey bantering about cake, secretly I think he loved all that guff. Anyhow - here I am at this ungodly hour, Dad will be snickering up in heaven at me creeping about encumbered by a passion he passed on.
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