I must admit that I am now over the initial shock of being selected to set the Link Words for the next four weeks of this month of June. I only started on the MM (and KM) trail last September, when I was introduced to both games by ex-champion cliffyg. I meet up with cliffyg on a fairly regular basis throughout the year as we share a keen interest in The Noble Game of Cricket; both indoor (winter) and outdoor (summer). One day (between innings) I happened to overhear him talking about "predicting link words" and thought, "That's for me"! Little did I think that I would be in this esteemed position so early with the responsibility of having to nominate a set of words for you to challenge the established AB Experts.
All Sports (not just Cricket) have always been prominent in my social life. My mother says that I have been sports mad from a very early age. She became so sick of me continually asking who won this and who scored what, that she began to teach me to read the football results before I reached the age of four years. From that time, I have always read newspapers from the back (sports) to the front (news) until they brought out a separate Sports section.