SLIPLESS IN SETTLE is a sentimental journey around club cricket in the north of England, a world far removed from the cliched lengthening shadows-on-the-village-green image of the summer game. This is hardcore cricket played in former pit villages and mill towns, places with names that sound like 1930s comedians, places that look straight out of THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN. It is about the little clubs that have, down the years, produced some of the greatest players England has ever seen, at one time spending a fortune on importing the biggest names in the international game to boost their battle for local supremacy. SLIPLESS IN SETTLE is a warm, affectionate and outrageously funny sporting odyssey in which Andrew Flintoff and Learie Constantine rub shoulders with Asbo-tag-wearing all-rounders; there's hot-pot pie and mushy peas at the tea bar, two types of mild in the clubhouse, and a batsman banned for a month for wearing a fireman's helmet when going out to face Joel Garner....