"I’d better black me face" - VOICE OF CRICKET Geoffrey Boycott puts his foot in it

Denster wrote:He's a bit like Aliss for the golf. From a different time in their sport where celebrities were allowed to be racist. Or prey on children.

"I'm not racist, I strawberry float black kids as well"

Boycott is not regarded as the voice of cricket or anything close, he is however terribly entertaining at times. That said, I totally appreciate that he isn't everyone's cup of tea.

The wife beater thing has been largely discredited btw. It's generally accepted that the woman made it up.

No excuses on this one though.

The best cricket commentator is some black guy with the most dulcet tones I've ever heard. His name escapes me

Buffalo wrote:The best cricket commentator is some black guy with the most dulcet tones I've ever heard. His name escapes me

Michael Holding.

Yes! Brilliant.

Drumstick wrote:The wife beater thing has been largely discredited btw. It's generally accepted that the woman made it up.

Not by the court that convicted him or by the appeals court that upheld the conviction.

Moggy wrote:
Denster wrote:He's a bit like Aliss for the golf. From a different time in their sport where celebrities were allowed to be racist. Or prey on children.

"I'm not racist, I strawberry float black kids as well"

That's dark!

No racism intended.

Moggy wrote:
Drumstick wrote:The wife beater thing has been largely discredited btw. It's generally accepted that the woman made it up.

Not by the court that convicted him or by the appeals court that upheld the conviction.

And since then the woman has in confidence admitted to people she just wanted a payday. Boycott being who he is (incredibly stubborn) wasn't going to be blackmailed as it would implicate guilt.

Buffalo wrote:The best cricket commentator was some (surprisingly) white guy with the most dulcet tones I've ever heard. His name escapes me

FTFY

RIP Tony Cozier.

The BBC haven't sacked him. I'm a bit worn out by this racism lark so I don't find that to be too egregious. Worse gooseberry fool going on. Still, he's a racist banana split.

Drumstick wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Drumstick wrote:The wife beater thing has been largely discredited btw. It's generally accepted that the woman made it up.

Not by the court that convicted him or by the appeals court that upheld the conviction.

And since then the woman has in confidence admitted to people she just wanted a payday. Boycott being who he is (incredibly stubborn) wasn't going to be blackmailed as it would implicate guilt.

All I can find is that she is supposed to have told a friend that she slipped.

An article from the time:

The judge, Dominique Haumant-Daumas, indulged Boycott and his lawyer when they presented hours of muddled evidence from, among others, a psychiatrist who had never met the victim, Margaret Moore, 46. (He judged her, from television clips and conversations with a former husband, to be a "hysterical psychopath".)

There were also three British women who travelled to France at Mr Boycott's expense to say they had suffered similar injuries to Ms Moore - two black eyes, severe bruising on the face - just by falling over in the street or at home. If it was a circus, it was mostly a circus of Boycott's making.

After presiding over the 10-hour trial of "L'Affaire Boycott", Judge Haumant-Daumas decided yesterday, in a delayed verdict, to deliver precisely the same judgment as another judge who conducted the original, ten-minute trial in January. The first trial was set aside because the 58-year-old former cricketer failed to turn up, saying he had a more important engagement commentating on Test matches in South Africa.

Ms Moore, a divorcee with two children, claimed Boycott punched her 20 times in the face, head and chest, holding her to the ground and staring at her with "wild, piercing and manic" eyes. Boycott insisted she fell over while throwing his shirt, shoes and underpants out of a hotel window during a quarrel.

In a seven-page written explanation of her verdict, the judge made it clear that Boycott's behaviour in court - telling Ms Moore's lawyer to "shut up" at one stage - had counted against him. "In the court, the accused didn't hesitate to interrupt rudely Mrs Moore's lawyer, tarnishing the image of the perfect gentleman which he brought his old friends and witnesses to testify to."

Judge Haumant-Daumas said the evidence presented to the court "did not support the theory of an accidental fall". She had decided that Ms Moore was the victim of "purposeful blows".

Ms Moore, who returned to Grasse for the judgment, said she was delighted with the verdict. "I am the victim here. He beat me three times in all. I want to urge every person who has suffered violence to report it to the police." She was, once again, awarded the 1 franc (10.5 pence) symbolic damages that she had requested.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/boyco ... 84088.html

To disbelieve all that I would want to see more than "a friend said".

She wanted 10p in damages? What the strawberry float?

Blue Eyes wrote:She wanted 10p in damages? What the strawberry float?

I'd guess she made a bit from selling her story and from interviews.

Moggy wrote:
Blue Eyes wrote:She wanted 10p in damages? What the strawberry float?

I'd guess she made a bit from selling her story and from interviews.

Fair dues if he strawberry floating did it, which he almost certainly did. banana splits like him get well protected.

Blue Eyes wrote:The BBC haven't sacked him. I'm a bit worn out by this racism lark so I don't find that to be too egregious. Worse gooseberry fool going on. Still, he's a racist banana split.

What an odd thing to say

Not wanting to lend any credence to his stupid comments in any way, but is anyone actually aware of the West Indian's he is referring to here? Are there that many with a knighthood? Although thinking about it surely they get knighted by their own government anyway so what the hell has it got to do with Boycott who the Antiguan (or any nation for that matter) government decide to recognise?

Besides as far as I'm aware the only British cricketer we have with a knighthood is Botham and his wasn't even for cricket so it's not like they're being given out like sweets and Boycott is being unjustly overlooked. What does he want one for "services to having a reassuring accent and continually claiming to be better than any English batsman who has come after him"?

I don't think it really matters but there are other English cricketers with a knighthood. Len Hutton, for example.

Looking at it, the last Englishman knighted for services to cricket was Colin Cowdrey but he was chairman of the ICC and he also worked behind the scenes a lot when he retired. Moaning occasionally about the lack of a third man or lamenting on the loss of uncovered pitches probably wouldn't be enough to secure Boycott a knighthood.

He's certainly not the 'voice of cricket' though, TMS have been ridiculing his opinions on air for years (Boycott Bingo for example).

Knoyleo wrote:
Blue Eyes wrote:The BBC haven't sacked him. I'm a bit worn out by this racism lark so I don't find that to be too egregious. Worse gooseberry fool going on. Still, he's a racist banana split.

What an odd thing to say

A very white thing to say tbh

Sorry, I misspoke. I was trying to say that racism is at the forefront of all news at the moment, which is awful, and as a result this particular story doesn't seem *that* egregious to me.

"I’d better black me face" - VOICE OF CRICKET Geoffrey Boycott puts his foot in it

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