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Post by flashblade on Nov 2, 2021 13:59:30 GMT
Yorkshire are slipping towards real trouble here. The chairman will now be called to give evidence to Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee about their internal report. That should be fun for the spectators, and big trouble for YCCC. Serves them right - history is littered with organisations that have compounded misdeeds within their ranks by trying to cover up those misdeeds, only to have them ultimately revealed publicly. They never learn. PS This subject probably deserves its own thread |
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Post by joe on Nov 2, 2021 15:24:47 GMT
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Post by flashblade on Nov 2, 2021 16:07:47 GMT
Great article. Wasn't there someone on this board recently sneering at The Guardian because of its circulation figures?! |
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Post by joe on Nov 2, 2021 17:06:58 GMT
Great article. Wasn't there someone on this board recently sneering at The Guardian because of its circulation figures?! I like Jonathan Liew, and at least it’s not behind a pay wall. |
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Post by flashblade on Nov 2, 2021 18:22:57 GMT
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Post by flashblade on Nov 2, 2021 19:45:43 GMT
Yorkshire board should resign over report into racism allegations, says DCMS chair.
Well, that's pretty emphatic. How much longer will the board stay in place?
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Nov 3, 2021 8:37:38 GMT
It is sports journalist, Chris Waters, from the Yorkshire Post who deserves the praise for covering this story over many months and not The Guardian who has jumped in at the back end of this controversy. At the centre of the row is new Yorkshire Chairman, Roger Hutton, who is showing loyalty to his players and staff and refusing to make a scapegoat of anyone at Headingley. The club has admitted there is “no question” that Azeem Rafiq was “the victim of racial harassment” during his first spell at Yorkshire from 2002 to 2014 and subsequently “the victim of bullying” after a year-long investigation upheld seven of 43 allegations or where 36 were dismissed. What doesn’t help the case is that Azeem being called a p*ki was dismissed by Hutton as simply “a word of banter” used by the players. This portrays poor judgment at a time when any form of racist slur is especially poignant in our culture. Yet, these are historical cases that took place as far back as 19 years ago when such a remark did not have the same powerful influence over society and where the force of social media was still in its infancy. Ask Ollie Robinson about “historical cases”. In fact, the left-wing media, in particular, is so troubled today that ESPNcricinfo, for example, can only write the word as p**i, so one extra asterisk than mine. I suppose writing p*** might confuse people. Maybe the P word is now the new N word?
Chairman Under Pressure
Hutton’s problems have escalated after the new Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, tweeted yesterday that “P*ki is not banter", adding that "Heads should roll at Yorkshire.” This was then compounded by Julian Knight MP, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee, who called it "one of the most repellent and disturbing episodes in modern cricket history” and has called on the entire Yorkshire Board to resign. Maybe another MP will come forward and demand that the entire Club is shut down and the Headingley ground sold off. But we can all see, Hutton is behaving naively. In today’s media world, where racism is the new kryptonite, all he has to do is find a Club scapegoat, fire that person, and all this will go away. Maybe, the Yorkshire Chairman lacks the underhand skills of politics and diplomacy as well as an inability to deal with this powerful woke world we now reside in. Nobody wants to see racism of any kind in cricket, but this is rocket fuel for the mainstream media and immediate brownie points for politicians. They are baying for blood and blood will flow.
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Post by flashblade on Nov 3, 2021 9:04:33 GMT
You say: "It is sports journalist, Chris Waters, from the Yorkshire Post who deserves the praise for covering this story over many months and not The Guardian who has jumped in at the back end of this controversy."
Why so anti-Guardian, WC? Now that the establishment are on Yorkshire's case, ALL national newspapers are reporting it - mostly away from the back pages, AFAICS. This is not 'jumping in at the back end'
BTW when did you raise the issue of this case - or are you guilty of now jumping in at the back end?
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Nov 3, 2021 9:25:40 GMT
I am not anti The Guardian, just a little tired of its regular left-wing propaganda where facts, on occasions, don’t matter, just the
political sentiment. I agree with Joe, Jonathan Liew is a good cricket journalist. I support the Yorkshire Post and Chris Waters because he has been covering this story from the very beginning. I have followed
it with interest, but had no desire to mention it on this thread. Unfortunately, Hutton referring to the word P*ki “as banter” was a very stupid thing to say and changed the whole perspective
by allowing the mainstream media and politicians to have a field day. |
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Post by flashblade on Nov 3, 2021 10:03:20 GMT
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Post by flashblade on Nov 3, 2021 10:25:47 GMT
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Post by gmdf on Nov 3, 2021 10:57:07 GMT
I'm 100% certain that anyone calling a colleague a 'p*ki' at anytime within the last 25 or more years would have led to immediate disciplinary action, and quite likely dismissal. At least in my job.
If the Augean Stables that Yorkshire seems to have been - and apparently still is - isn't cleared at once they cannot be allowed to take part in county cricket next season.
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Post by flashblade on Nov 3, 2021 11:05:43 GMT
I'm 100% certain that anyone calling a colleague a 'p*ki' at anytime within the last 25 or more years would have led to immediate disciplinary action, and quite likely dismissal. At least in my job. If the Augean Stables that Yorkshire seems to have been - and apparently still is - isn't cleared at once they cannot be allowed to take part in county cricket next season. I'm sure this must now happen. Has anyone heard anything from either Boycott or Vaughan on this subject? They're normally very willing to offer their opinions. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2021 12:30:48 GMT
It is sports journalist, Chris Waters, from the Yorkshire Post who deserves the praise for covering this story over many months and not The Guardian who has jumped in at the back end of this controversy. The Guardian have been covering it ever since the story broke a year ago eg. www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/nov/13/asian-cricketers-at-yorkshire-faced-constant-abuse-says-azeem-rafiqAside from the actual allegations when Rafiq was at the club Yorkshire's behaviour has been pretty unforgivable throughout the whole inquiry process, right down to rushing out the summary of the report on the morning it was announced the final England India test was cancelled in the hope that that news would bury it. Has anyone heard anything from either Boycott or Vaughan on this subject? They're normally very willing to offer their opinions. If I were to guess at whose side Boycott would be on it wouldn't be Rafiq's |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Nov 3, 2021 13:17:07 GMT
randall,
The Guardian have been covering it ever since the story broke a year ago
The difference is that since early September 2020, the Yorkshire Post has published approximately 24 stories on the subject and The Guardian 9.
Chris Waters did an excellent job covering this story right from its beginnings.
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