fancy Dan

He’d gee up our side of fancy dan playmakers.

I just hope he doesn't lose himself to the "fancy Dan" mentality that tends to accompany Tottenham players.

There are passages on developing tall, awkward boys into sound basketball players; screeds against “Fancy Dan” dribbling; and a decree that all players must improve their agility and fitness by jumping rope every day using “8-gauge cotton clothesline.”

His duel with Danny Cipriani, billed in some quarters as 'Fancy Dan vs Perma Tan', was equally absorbing for the hour or so it lasted.

To be a defensive, run-accumulating, flash-free West Indian batsman is like being a Brazilian midfielder in the 1960s who had a great little engine, went box to box, relished nothing more than a meaty 50-50 challenge and had a grandad who sat in the stands at the Maracanã wearing a gabardine mac, a flat cap and an expression of simmering resentment, and yelled "Stop fannying about and get it in the box you fancy Dan little pillock" every time Garrincha executed a stepover.