Duncan Fletcher’s crappy book
It is if the extracts are anything to go by.
Duncan Fletcher’s book is called ‘Behind The Shades
Well, it turns out that he did have a lot to say and he was bottling it all up ready for a massively juvenile autobiography. We’ve always held Fletcher in high regard for what he achieved, but the extracts from this book that have been appearing in The Daily Mail seem designed to strip away any dignity he had or any respect he earned.
If we could sum up Fletcher’s words, without reference to any specific incident, it would be as follows:
- Dropping this player was wrong. You thought it was my decision, but it wasn’t.
- You said omitting this player was wrong, but it wasn’t. And even if it was wrong, it wasn’t my decision, but it wasn’t wrong and mostly it was my decision.
- So-and-so said I was a dick, but I didn’t even do anything, so who’s the dick, eh? It’s him. He’s the dick.
- So-and-so once said something critical about me, so I decided I would never speak to him again. Then I shouted at him.
- I was pretty much always right.
The overall tone is of a child being asked why they’d done something wrong and going: ‘Actually, actually, it wasn’t me, actually. Because actually…’ and then desperately reworking the facts to put themselves in a good light.
It also would appear that Fletcher thinks a discussion about selection can be dealt with by naming your preferred choice to England’s captain and chairman of selectors before walking away without another word and ignoring them when they try to call you back to actually talk about it.
We agree with him about Beefy though.
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