Looser Balls
 

Looser Balls was born in 1996 as a successor to Loose Balls, a magazine produced by players in the 1980s. Since then, the publication has been taken to the libel courts on more than a dozen occasions. Back in 2000, a public school youngster unsuccessfully claimed that Looser Balls had stained his character with an allegation of an after-match showers incident involving Ley Hill paceman Liam O'Neill. On another occasion, O'Neill was unable to prove to the courts that he was not the son of a local fish monger. Most recently, it was judged that Paul Green did share characteristics with IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands, TV man Jim Rosenthal, and irritating mime-ist Marcel Marceau.

Looser Balls has fought off these challenges and gone on to win critical acclaim. Here is a selection of articles that have previously appeared in Looser Balls - and some recent material appearing exclusively on this site.

Summer 2009

The original Looser Balls fanzine of Ley hill Cricket has now been reproduced electronically for your entertainment! The complete collection can be viewed here. Read issue #1 here. Read issue #2 here. Read issue #3 here. Read issue #4 here. Read issue #5 here. Read issue #6 here. Read issue #7 here. Read issue #8 here. Read issue #9 here. Read issue #10 here. Read issue #11 here. Read issue #12 here.

Summer 2008




Summer 2005

Tea Watch

Summer 2003

Tea Watch

Match Preparation Survey - results

Feeble Excuses Contest - results

Russian tycoon Packetovic set to takeover the Hill - megabucks and buxom ladies await

Andrew Rennard and the mystery of the Guernsey Grip

Dope, fake tan and the Ley Hill urinals - doping scandal hits the Hill

Packet In - the nicknames of Ley Hill players

Time Team visits Ley Hill

A Potted History of the Potting Shed

The Glorious Thirds


October 2002

Colts' Parents and their Beer

Revealed: Massive bust-up that ruined Ley Hill's Mid Bucks chances
 

November 2000

The Looser Balls Awards - 2000