LAST WEEK saw the annual Eton versus Harrow fixture at Lord’s, and with many column inches having been written about the right and wrongs of staging of the game at Lord’s since the publication of the ICEC report, this year’s contest was also mired in controversy.
With the Lord’s ground authorities restricting the amount of play at Lord’s to just 60 days, the annual fixture, which goes back to the year of Trafalgar, is under threat on several fronts. The timing of this year’s match was commented on in The Times on May 6 as the fixture, normally...
