geoff boycott: CoD

i hated him but i disliked all batsmen anyway (yes yes excuse me i was 10-14)

Of course wasn't old enough to see him as a batsmen but as a commentator I really liked him. You could see why he was good as a player.

Boycott was a berk BUT incredibly important, if only for being so anti-establishment and bloody selfish.

the fellow who read out the reason why YCC had sacked GB was ahem VERY OLD-SKOOL INDEED in a gentlemen-vs-players stylee

it was enjoyable watching f.trueman being out-bluddy-salt-of-the-earth-me'd

GB's sang-froid response to a reporter asking him abt death threats after the south african tour made me grin, even if his organising that tour totally validated my earlier dislike

(ie the reporter had a long q abt death threats and how did he feel, and GB — w/o even pausing in his search for a taxi — just went "heh" to himself, as in "the world's bluddy bonkers")

x-post: yes, another funny moment but I just read the grin as: ''just threats, no guts or bloody mindedness to actually carry out anything''

Was he really the model for Palin's Eric Olthwaite?

this means there's a v.weird dissonance for me when eg trueman is talking about those same whippersnappers (whose names are all so many madeleines to me) as if THEY were the giants in those days and self-evidently NOT rub

it's like i missed a jump in the conversation (which of course i did: 20 years -worth)

If the wife comes up to you - hit it. Defend thee court case in France.

everyone speaking in french!!
presiding judge = absurdly chic and model-esque blonde young frenchwoman!!

I used to work with this big strong fat bloke who, living down south for 20 years, consciously played the role of *the archetypal Yorkshireman*, exaggerated the bluntness for effect, consciously (but crucially NOT REALISING THAT IT WAS CONSCIOUS) refers to Lauryn Hill as a "coloured bird" etc etc (really nice chap, just OTT with the manliness and small-c conservatism) and I always thought Boycott and Trueman were his models; specifically in a lot of our conversations he was casting himself as them, while expecting me to play the CMJ role (I mean, I don't talk that posh, but you get the point). the hilarious thing though re Boycott's trial is that my very own archetypal Yorkshireman in exile etc etc NOW LIVES IN FRANCE!!!!

& (Introducing GB earlier)
MN: You were a genuinely great Test batsman... More recently, a world-class commentator...
GB: Well, not good enough for you lot to give me a job!

Hmmm. So those sounds were actually my brain cells dying a painful and lingering (albeit also noisy) death? It does help to know that the thread's about cricket. I was/am not understanding any of the references.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIHdMOPwKzQ

lol

"thirteen years pass…" also seems apposite

Greatest Living Yorkshireman strikes again

The one I'm surprised got no traction was during the TMS coverage the other day (Friday?) when he was malenting the lack of good pace attack the West Indies have these days - "It used to be, you shook a coconut tree and two or three fast bowlers fell out..."

*lamenting*

his cricket opinions are usually otm but sheesh he is unreconstructed re: everything else

I'm a Yawwwwrkshireman, I tell it like it is, like it or lump it, take me as I am etc.

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Ha, beat me to it!

ah cud av nuked nuuth kureeah with a stick a roobaab

he is just playing to the gallery, to some people his racist tendencies add to his legend status. ha ha he's done it again etc .. followed by unconvincing apology in incredulous - aye lad racist me? absolute tommyrot - some of my best friends are them Jamaican folk - style .. ad infinitum... Mind you he is total deadpool material, so maybe not much longer.

Imagine being so desperate for a knighthood that you'll make these kind of comments to remind people you don't have one.

maybe he needs to take some royal brown-nosing lessons off Billy Connolly. Although his was a long brown-nosing game, Geoff might not have that long left.

They should knight Jimmy Anderson just to piss him off more

Or, better, Moeen :D

arise, Sir Haseeb Hameed ...

that Bumble story upthread is *kisses fingers*