Fantasy Bobseye

The Cap'n
demonstrating his one-eyed
batting technique

Supreme executive authorities at go ahead Edinburgh cricket club Carlton have been swift to react to the news that frozen food giant Birds Eye is set to axe advertising figurehead Captain Birdseye after nearly five decades.

In an emergency statement issued late last night a spokesperson said,

'This tragic news has no implications for the position of other veteran captains.  

'We are resigned to the fact that Fantasy Bobseye will continue as captain of Carlton's All Star Fourth XI, a position he has held since the end of the Boer War.'