Bill Morris enters the race to be ECB Chair

Election excitement ahoy! Former leader of the Transport & General Workers Union, Bill Morris, has thrown his hat into the ring to be the next boss of the England & Wales Cricket Board.  Morris, now known as Lord Morris of Handsworth, is currently an independent non-executive director of the ECB.

A strange move this, and I think that he has done it to split the vote and therefore break the deadlock after the latest ballot between Michael Soper and Giles Clarke ended in a draw.  However, if Bill is serious, I doubt much would change.  I, for one, have very little faith in the man who displayed a cloying lack of backbone in the Liverpool docker's dispute, and who was cuddler-upper-in-chief to the New Labour administratrion to stand up to either the ICC or the club chairmen in any real way.