Schoolboy error

The subject of fees and commission is enough to put Mike Gatting off his steak and kidney pie

"Good grief, old boy," said the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment group SmallBluePlanet slapping his forehead. "What on earth can you have been thinking?" "Quite obviously I wasn't thinking," I said. "Well, I was thinking a little but evidently not enough - otherwise I wouldn't have brought the blasted subject up." We were sitting in the Ian Pascal Suite of Lord's Nursery Ground Complex, overlooking the very cricket pitch where Justin Langer once hit a ball from Rob Page so far and so high Air Traffic Control had to be informed, and where we had been very much enjoying a spe...