Field of Dreams: What Whitney and Freddie have in common

When it comes to younger generation, it appears England cricket star Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff takes his lead from Whitney Houston - he believes that children are our future.

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And on the basis of the new, third, series of Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams, subtitled Ultimate Test, you can't help agreeing with them.

It's a hugely satisfying, optimistic, hopeful watch but it also leaves you with no illusions as to the scale of the problems facing the younger generation at a time in which our leaders seem so determined to stuff things up for them.

After creating a cricket team from a ragtag bunch of lads in his home town of Preston, and taking them on tour to India, Flintoff now hopes to expand the project across the north west, possibly even creating a league of similar teams, all giving young people a chance to play a sport, giving them a chance to be part of something bigger than themselves.

His previous team has been a success, not just in terms of sporting endeavour, but also in terms of their wider lives.

They have found jobs and homes and purpose in life. As Flintoff says, with paternal pride, they're "a lovely group of lads".