LEGENDARY cricket umpire Dickie Bird is set to celebrate his 92nd birthday tomorrow - and he reckons his love for sport...

They certainly don't respect cricket. You only have to look at the last couple of seasons to see how far down the table umpires come for a bit of respect. And what's the cause? Money and selfishness.

Former British cricket umpire Harold (Dickie) Bird poses for pictures after receiving the Officer of the British Empire, (OBE) which was presented to him by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace in ...

There is no doubt that this accolade now belongs to Dickie Bird. Personal celebrity, however, was never thought to sit easily alongside excellence in a professional cricket umpire, and so Bird's ...

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I'd never seen anything like it," said much-loved umpire Dickie Bird. To celebrate the famous event in June 1975, Buxton ...