http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/current/story/410909.html

....Of course he had very high standards, so did we all, but he was a completely different kind of leader to Nasser, who used to kick the dirt and chunter whenever you bowled a bad ball. Vaughany would just roll his eyes at you, and say: "Hoggy, Hoggy, Hoggy, what the f*** are you doing?" Instead of thinking "I need to bowl well because I'll get a bollocking if I don't" it was more a case of thinking "Yeah, it's my performance, I need to sort this out".....


...Who knows what might have happened if he'd got the right treatment for his knee straightaway. Unfortunately it robbed him of some of his best years, and it still troubles him. If he turns the wrong way, or dives in the field and lands a bit funny, it clearly troubles him. He played a shot at Warwickshire the other day, and just collapsed. Everyone thought he'd slipped, but his knee had actually given way. It still gives him a lot of gyp....

A heartfelt tribute and worth a read.

Clearly there is real affection and respect between these two. It's nice to read Hoggy being serious and not playing to his image for once.

i think the ridiculous selection of Pattison ahead of Hoggard at Headingley last summer possibly had more impact than initially intended.

It showed to Vaughan that the selectors had different views to him on Hoggys ability but it also showed to Hoggy that his chances of an England recall were actually miles away.

You always thought that Hoggy would bowl through a brick wall with Vaughan as skipper and some of that must be in the way Vaughan treated him and got the best out of him - shame the selectors and more importantly Mags and Moxon cannot quite achieve the same - is it down to the decline of Hoggy as a bowler or how he is being managed?

Any eulogy that starts with the following paragraph, is bound to be an interesting read:

"Before I crack on with my eulogy to Michael Vaughan, there is one thing I've got to get off my chest: he ain't a Yorkshire lad, he's from fricking Lancashire! He always wanted to be a Yorkshire lad, but unfortunately for him he will always be from the wrong side of the Pennines. But we have tried not to hold that against him, and he has probably been at Headingley long enough now to have earned honorary status."