DAVID Foot, who died two years ago at the age of 92, was one of those journalists who loathed the prosaic. Even when his subjects were bathed in it, his copy would somehow skirt the dullness by making the humdrum thrum with life and meaning. Footie, as most on the cricket circuit called him, wrote for a variety of publications like the Guardian, the Western Daily Press, even Melody Maker. As with most freelancers his subjects could be varied, running a gamut from theatre to war poets, though cricket was always his forte. For 50 years, his finely-crafted reports highlighted t...