I do wonder if ultra-subtle spot-fixing is easier now in T20...
― imago, Monday, 1 November 2021 21:09 (two years ago) link
You can take the boy out of Zimbabwe and Harrow School...
― imago, Thursday, 4 November 2021 11:23 (two years ago) link
(yes, glasshouses lol, but they wear boaters ffs)
This is turning nastier and nastier
― imago, Thursday, 4 November 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
You heard about Michael Vaughan?
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 4 November 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link
mmhm
― imago, Thursday, 4 November 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
plenty of games ripe for micro spot fixing (New Zealand vs Namibia!) because who's gonna be watching besides the bookmakers??
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Friday, 5 November 2021 10:22 (two years ago) link
Who would ever have guessed Yorkshire cricket could be home to a bunch of racist troglodytes?
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Friday, 5 November 2021 10:28 (two years ago) link
This is pretty comprehensive about the depressing state of English cricket, which has been getting less diverse and less representative for a long time now https://t.co/LGoJ4hJR10— Rory Macqueen (@RNMacqueen) November 4, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 5 November 2021 10:36 (two years ago) link
Glad he pointed out that English cricket is now dominated by the privately educated - which is a trend in UK sport in general... UK life in general.
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Friday, 5 November 2021 10:43 (two years ago) link
I can just imagine the exact type of beetroot faced indignant rage going down about this at my local Tory gammon cricket club tonight.
― calzino, Friday, 5 November 2021 10:45 (two years ago) link
Yeah it's in UK culture and arts as well xp
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 5 November 2021 10:47 (two years ago) link
Wasn't quite expecting Vaughan to be a racist, though I've never looked at it closely.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 5 November 2021 10:48 (two years ago) link
surely it's not that much of a surprise - such strong Tory vibes and he was spiritually bald before his hair started dropping out!
― calzino, Friday, 5 November 2021 10:54 (two years ago) link
yeah he's long been a smug, reactionary shires Tory
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Friday, 5 November 2021 10:56 (two years ago) link
Lol
He simply does not miss pic.twitter.com/ibQL6tvGFe— Kieth Starmer is a cop (@BP_Cena) November 5, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 6 November 2021 11:11 (two years ago) link
Ah man.
― imago, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
Wonder how this is going to echo through the game from the top down to club level
― imago, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 13:06 (two years ago) link
A sad twist today. Hopefully this doesn't become a culture war wedge
― imago, Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
It’s not a twist, it’s the difference between institutional and personal racism.
― suggest bainne (gyac), Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:17 (two years ago) link
Also very suspicious how it ended up all over the newspapers today.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
There were people out there listening to the testimony and scoffing at it, making the usual excuses “why did he go back”, etc. Anti-Muslim sentiment sells papers and there’s nothing the papers like better than “this person from an ethnic minority background is the real racist”.
― suggest bainne (gyac), Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:20 (two years ago) link
― suggest bainne (gyac), Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:17 (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
fair. but yeah, you can see entirely how this will be used
― imago, Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
And you’re going along with it because…? You called it “a sad twist”.
― suggest bainne (gyac), Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:35 (two years ago) link
You’ll have to walk me through this. How is it a “sad twist”? Guy seems devastated in his statement, comments were pretty crass and ill judged but he owned and apologised for them. Which iirc is all he wanted from the club? So it’s a “twist” because some cunt paper went digging through old social media posts, and it’s “sad” because he has at some point in his own life been racist, which means presumably he’s a less sympathetic victim? Is that it?
― suggest bainne (gyac), Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
it's a sad twist because of how those with an anti-Muslim sentiment will frame it, hence 'I hope it doesn't become a culture war wedge'; the reactionaries are already amassing to dismiss him and his (obviously valid) testimony
― imago, Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:48 (two years ago) link
Yes, by all means let’s sink to their level.
― suggest bainne (gyac), Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
i didn't for a second suggest doing so
― imago, Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
It's all culture war all the time.
It should also be ignored so as not to lose sight of what's at stake.
You need brain cells for this, is the thing.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 November 2021 20:45 (two years ago) link
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 November 2021 bookmarkflaglink
Right. Nothing new about it.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 November 2021 20:46 (two years ago) link
I promise you, *nothing* can prepare you for Jordan Peterson on Azeem Rafiq #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/FIuQnW7S8r— William Kedjanyi (@KeejayOV3) November 18, 2021
this fucking clown
― calzino, Friday, 19 November 2021 08:55 (two years ago) link
Asking a Canadian benzedrine addict to talk about cricket. Good work, BBC.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Friday, 19 November 2021 09:03 (two years ago) link
gosh imagine if you were one of these journalists that was stanning for him as a leading public intellectual a few years back. He's thick as pigshit.
― calzino, Friday, 19 November 2021 09:04 (two years ago) link
almost as much fun as when they had that other Canadian prick, Malcolm Gladwell, telling us what is wrong with the NHS.
― calzino, Friday, 19 November 2021 09:21 (two years ago) link
"nothing can prepare you for Peterson on Rafiq"
Log on to ilx and watch LJ talk about culture war. It isn't that far off Peterson's "oh no pitting group against group isn't going to help destroy the racism".
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 19 November 2021 09:58 (two years ago) link
Alex Hale: "It wasn't racist when I blackfaced up because it was a tribute to my black hero, Tupac"
― calzino, Friday, 19 November 2021 10:08 (two years ago) link
Lol, I was nodding along with everyone else on the panel. Man’s a ranting mess.
― suggest bainne (gyac), Friday, 19 November 2021 10:08 (two years ago) link
He's a drug addict who was in a coma for months so, yes, he's a perfect choice for BBC's flagship political debate show.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Friday, 19 November 2021 10:27 (two years ago) link
Fucksake
But not entirely unexpected
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 07:29 (two years ago) link
Pretty hilarious.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 07:40 (two years ago) link
nah, not hilarious. irritatingly to-the-script
― imago, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 07:54 (two years ago) link
strong "lol england" vibes, gotta love it
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 09:23 (two years ago) link
wait until both teams have had a bat tomorrow, and Australia are 300-4, and we'll see who's laughing then
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 09:28 (two years ago) link
oh well you will have the initial excitement of D. Warner throwing away his wicket needlessly at least
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 09:34 (two years ago) link
Cameron Green 80 ball century will be the real sickener
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 10:07 (two years ago) link
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 8 December 2021 09:23 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
you do not get a vote
― imago, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 10:42 (two years ago) link
meanwhile, lol bangladesh
― imago, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 10:57 (two years ago) link
At least Warner didn’t get a century.
― toby, Thursday, 9 December 2021 05:06 (two years ago) link
NOW you may lol England
― imago, Thursday, 9 December 2021 09:13 (two years ago) link
Australia 7/343 at the Gabba? A great days work! Wait, it says day two- time to sit down with a mug of coffee and see what I missed on the first day
― who's afraid of adrian woolfe? (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 9 December 2021 09:16 (two years ago) link