Cricket and wife-beating
Cricket players and ex-players, much like their rugby brethen, tend to be patronising about football players. Much of this is, of course, jealously at the far higher salaries and public profile of even football players. It is also, I suspect, fuelled by social class and education snobbery.It also leads to a tendency to think their own sport is whiter-than-white. No example can be better than Simon Hughes' column in Friday's Telegraph in which he muses over the increasing popularity of cricket vs football is partly because cricket players are far more accessible, less absurdly paid, live more mormal lives and..."these players...are not prone to wife beating".
Certainly none of the current England team are "prone to wife-beating". But the most high profile wife-beating court case in my lifetime has been Simon Hughes' own colleague, Geoff Boycott, one of the most famous England cricket captains. Here's a handy picture of them together.
posted by Matthew @ 8/20/2005 11:17:00 AM
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