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Every person involved with England cricket is an eight-year-old child‏

Bowled on 10th January, 2009 at 13:27 by King Cricket
Category: England cricket news

Turncoat players; fringe squad members ‘leaking’ information; nameless ECB officials also leaking information and accusing players of having oversized egos; not to mention a media solely interested in column inches, badgering anyone and everyone for more information.

Fucking stop it. Belt up.

Who cares who says and thinks what about whom? Whether people like or dislike other people is irrelevant. They can still work together. Even if they disagree about certain issues, they can surely all agree on one; what should be the unifying sentiment for everyone involved – that they want what’s best for England.

Tell you what’s most definitely not best for England: inciting needless conflict and fracturing the side through unceasing, childish whispering.

If one more unnamed ECB official or player ‘leaks’ some further information that can only cause conflict in the England team, we’re going to act.

No TV, no videogames, no sweets. We’ll also torch all the sponsored cars – but that’s more for our benefit.

"Hey, careful, man, there’s a beverage here"

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  1. Reply
    Sledger   //   January 10th, 2009 at 15:56

    For some reason, I thought of this - here’s a clipping from a website back in 2004, about Sven-Goran Eriksson’s Faria-Alam daliance:

    “Colin Gibson, FA director of communications
    Made his name as one of the country’s leading soccer journalists before becoming sports editor of the Sunday Telegraph and then the Daily Mail.
    Switched sides to join the FA as director of communications in January and was widely praised for his role during Euro 2004.
    Was undone when he attempted to broker a deal with the News of the World, asking for details of Palios’s affair with Alam to be hushed up [in return he offered details of Sven's relationship with Alam to the NotW].
    The newspaper published transcripts of the conversation and Gibson offered his resignation, yet to be accepted. [It was accepted]“

    And what does CG do now?
    Director of communications for the ECB.

  2. Reply
    SixSixEight   //   January 10th, 2009 at 20:35

    *Sigh*

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    Oomby Dave   //   January 10th, 2009 at 23:48

    Think about it like this, every work place has it’s problems and issues between staff. People do bitch etc but the ones who are effective at their job don’t get involved and move on from it. These ECB officials and players etc should be well about this level of pettiness considering their status and pay…

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    S.L.D   //   January 11th, 2009 at 13:11

    they’ve lost it , haven’t they??
    pietersen’s south africa will be very happy!!

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    ceci   //   January 11th, 2009 at 15:51

    Ooo bloody hell King you ARE cross *hides NotW under sofa cushions*

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    Ne   //   January 11th, 2009 at 16:40

    Sledger has harnessed the power of the Blue Box!

    I’m scared….

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    Mel   //   January 11th, 2009 at 17:52

    The ECB should line up, bend over and accept six of the best from King Cricket (although no doubt some of them would quite enjoy it).

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    Cricket Coach   //   January 11th, 2009 at 19:23

    there is no doubt that english cricket is in disaray….shame the boys do not need this distraction before facing the Aussies this summer

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    Ged Ladd   //   January 11th, 2009 at 22:38

    Daisy says, “don’t be so boring, this is fun. Gossip makes the world go round”.

    I’m only reporting to you what she says, don’t take it out on me.

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