“So that’s how you spell Barran...”
Recent attempts by those not in the know have led to the assumption that Johnny Barran is living a double life as an Elvis impersonator, as suggested by Google. But the truth of course is somewhat different...
Whilst anticipating tomorrow's Surrey v Unicorns CB40 game (no, I haven’t gone all Narnia on you: it really is the Unicorns) I thought I would relate a tale from a Surrey/Middlesex game of a year or so back. The infectiously enthusiastic, fast-talking Kevin Hand of BBC Middlesex was co-commentating on a match alongside Mark Church, and recently acquired stats guru and all-round good guy Johnny Barran.
Having discussed the somewhat disappointing and lax attitude of those who turned up to T20 games as bananas, without even bothering to make the effort to fully zip themselves up, the attention turned to Johnny Barran who, being the new kid on the block, was unsurprisingly the focus of much curiosity. Previous attempts to Google Mr B had led to, well, frankly zero in the way of information or more importantly photographs. Which is always annoying when you have many Photoshop fiends amongst your friends waiting to turn their favourite people into Vikki Pollard, Banana Man or Lady Penelope...
The thing is, you see, you can’t really pick up on spelling over the radio. And nobody realised that lovely Johnny Barran spelled his name with an ‘a’ rather than an ‘o’.
That was until Kevin Hand stepped in at half-time and, having been off air, flicked a few switches, and calmly announced “Johnny Barran...yes, that’s spelled B-A-R-R-A-N.”
Moral of the story? When someone’s been turned into a Little Britain lookalike, they are more than happy to inflict the same treatment on their colleagues!
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