RICHARD CLARKE
AKA The Grumbler

Dear Oliver Dowden,
Please let me introduce myself. I am a county cricket fan, cricket writer/author and I live in Hertsmere, your constituency.
This is an ‘open letter’ that will be emailed to you and act as my column in The Cricket Paper on Sunday, September 12.
I read with interest your interview with Henry Winter in The Times on Friday, August 27, headlined: ‘[Football] Clubs are like art treasures – they must be protected’. It suggested that, on the back of the crisis this summer over the proposed European Super L...