Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2015 21:42:11 GMT
Watching football tear itself apart over Ched Evans and hearing the obnoxious comments of his moronic apologists such as Gordon Taylor and Steve Bruce has made me realise how lucky we are as cricket supporters.
Football has convicted rapists. Cricket has Monty Panesar taking an il-advised widdle.
Football has Luis Suarez biting his opponents. Cricket has KP sending harmless text messages.
Brighton and Hove Albion have had eight different football managers since Mark Robinson became cricket manager at Sussex.
Football has Sepp Blatter, which should make us realise we got off lightly with Giles Clarke and Lalit Modi (but let's not mention Stanford).
Match fixing? England footballers Peter Swan and Tony Kay were at it 50 years before Naved Arif and Lou Vincent conspired to shame Sussex.
Tom Maynard was a tragic drink-and-drugs headbanger; but at least he didn't kill anyone else as drunken footballers-behind-the-wheel Lee Hughes and Lee McCormick did.
I can't think of a cricketer who has taken the field as a prisoner on licence wearing an elecrtronic tag under their kit, as footballers Gary Croft and Jermaine Pennant were forced to do.
The misogynist Boycott was fined 50,000 francs for repeartedly punching his girlfriend and sacked by both The Sun and the BBC for the offence; but at least he didn't go to prison for 18 months for sexual assault like Marlon King.
Posh-but-silly Tory boy Strauss was crass enough to call Pietersen a cnut on air, but his offence paled alongside the grossly offensive on-mic behaviour that cost the jobs of Strauss's Sky Sports footballing colleagues Andy Gray and Richard Keys.
Of course, cricket has its roll call of shame, and Sussex's Alan Wells and a distressingly large Kent contigent that included Knott, Underwood, Chris Cowdrey, Woolmer, Dilley and Ellison brought dishonour on our corner of the world with their sanctions-busting tours that gave such succour to apartheid South Africa.
But overall, cricket maintains a very civilised and dignified culture compared to football, don't you think?
Football has convicted rapists. Cricket has Monty Panesar taking an il-advised widdle.
Football has Luis Suarez biting his opponents. Cricket has KP sending harmless text messages.
Brighton and Hove Albion have had eight different football managers since Mark Robinson became cricket manager at Sussex.
Football has Sepp Blatter, which should make us realise we got off lightly with Giles Clarke and Lalit Modi (but let's not mention Stanford).
Match fixing? England footballers Peter Swan and Tony Kay were at it 50 years before Naved Arif and Lou Vincent conspired to shame Sussex.
Tom Maynard was a tragic drink-and-drugs headbanger; but at least he didn't kill anyone else as drunken footballers-behind-the-wheel Lee Hughes and Lee McCormick did.
I can't think of a cricketer who has taken the field as a prisoner on licence wearing an elecrtronic tag under their kit, as footballers Gary Croft and Jermaine Pennant were forced to do.
The misogynist Boycott was fined 50,000 francs for repeartedly punching his girlfriend and sacked by both The Sun and the BBC for the offence; but at least he didn't go to prison for 18 months for sexual assault like Marlon King.
Posh-but-silly Tory boy Strauss was crass enough to call Pietersen a cnut on air, but his offence paled alongside the grossly offensive on-mic behaviour that cost the jobs of Strauss's Sky Sports footballing colleagues Andy Gray and Richard Keys.
Of course, cricket has its roll call of shame, and Sussex's Alan Wells and a distressingly large Kent contigent that included Knott, Underwood, Chris Cowdrey, Woolmer, Dilley and Ellison brought dishonour on our corner of the world with their sanctions-busting tours that gave such succour to apartheid South Africa.
But overall, cricket maintains a very civilised and dignified culture compared to football, don't you think?
