This article took a long time coming but even then the timing is pretty right. He is and would remain my favorite cricketer and I could only make an exception for Sachin. Gough was fabulous and the writer has described him correctly for possessing a Lion’s heart and wearing that on his sleeve in the ground. The bright smile could please thousands together at Lords even though England as a side was getting beaten on all fronts, people would just pay to watch that man smile. He was no mug as a performer for the way he would have batters swinging without effect in the death overs, with Goughffgy on song was pleasing. We would miss you on the field goughy but that smile would never be forgotten in the minds.