Getting softer?
November 30th 2006 05:59
In this day and age where calling anybody anything can get you into trouble, the English Cricket Board have pushed it to a new extreme. The word is now that calling an Englishman a "Pom" is now a term of racial abuse. Would somebody please explain to me when the English became a race unto themselves? Because it's now apparently in the same class as wog, dago, chink, dago and all of the other really racially offensive names. There are many worse names that you could call someone english other than a "Pom". They also complained that Monty Panesar was subjected to racial abuse by someone who yelled out to him "You don't come from England!" It was very vague in that it didn't call him a name, didn't mention his colour or his religion so I ask you where is the racism in that? What if it was said to Kevin Peterson? Would it still qualify as racism? Half the fun is going to the cricket and being in the crowd. If we all had to sit there and say and do nothing then we'd all be at the tennis, wouldn't we? I don't encourage racial taunts, but a little ribbing of the opposition never hurt anyone as long as it's not taken too far. How many times have we heard a chant from the crowd that goes "(insert cricketers name here) is a wanker!"
The english really do remind me of a doughnut in that they're thin-skinned, pasty and soft. They need to find other things more important to worry about such as their so called fast bowler Stephen "L-plate" Harmison. I'm sorry but if any other bowler in any other test playing nation bowled like he did in the first test he'd be sitting out the next match cooling his heels especially when he has to "re-learn" how to bowl. Is there no other option than a terribly out of sorts bowler who has been desribed as potentially the difference between keeping or losing the Ashes? Is the English cupboard that bare?
Personally, I'm beginning to believe that most international cricketers are getting softer by the day. When I was growing up I heard stories of how international cricketers played with injuries and still made it through. Ever hear about how Jeff Thompson played in his first test with a broken foot? Rick McCosker and his broken jaw in the centenary test in 1977? Or how Allan Border batted with a broken finger in England in 1981? How about how Malcolm Marshall played with a fractured arm in England in 1988? These days we get players like Pedro Collins who got hit on the chin whilst batting, required stitches and then sat out the rest of the days play! Or how Shane Watson who injured his hamstring and when he was ruled out went into the dressing room and cried his eyes out. Test cricket is a tough sport and it requires tough men. We don't need prima donnas. Thats what international soccer is for.
The english really do remind me of a doughnut in that they're thin-skinned, pasty and soft. They need to find other things more important to worry about such as their so called fast bowler Stephen "L-plate" Harmison. I'm sorry but if any other bowler in any other test playing nation bowled like he did in the first test he'd be sitting out the next match cooling his heels especially when he has to "re-learn" how to bowl. Is there no other option than a terribly out of sorts bowler who has been desribed as potentially the difference between keeping or losing the Ashes? Is the English cupboard that bare?
Personally, I'm beginning to believe that most international cricketers are getting softer by the day. When I was growing up I heard stories of how international cricketers played with injuries and still made it through. Ever hear about how Jeff Thompson played in his first test with a broken foot? Rick McCosker and his broken jaw in the centenary test in 1977? Or how Allan Border batted with a broken finger in England in 1981? How about how Malcolm Marshall played with a fractured arm in England in 1988? These days we get players like Pedro Collins who got hit on the chin whilst batting, required stitches and then sat out the rest of the days play! Or how Shane Watson who injured his hamstring and when he was ruled out went into the dressing room and cried his eyes out. Test cricket is a tough sport and it requires tough men. We don't need prima donnas. Thats what international soccer is for.
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