english cricket

[CANV EFM]

mm i notice the english cricket board have said we will play in zimbabwe... oh dear racist scum.. its ok to bail out of sarf africa but heaven forbid doing anything if a white person is getting shot raped battered etc..total bail out of moral responsibility.. ill never pay to watch england play criket again...

[Tom S]

Or to turn your argument around:

 

The right wing were forever screaming that politics should be kept out of sport when the boycott was to help the black majority in South Africa. Now that the white minority is on the receiving end the right wing are screaming that we should boycott Zimbabwe. They can't have it both ways.

 

Yes we should have made a stand, but it should have been months ago, not now at the eleventh hour.

[CANV EFM]

2 wrongs dont make a right.. or as garth would say.. 'live in the now man!!!'

[Chubbhead EFM]

Canv, did you watch that programme on Channel 4 on Sunday(?) about Zimbabwe. It was really interesting but shocking at the same time. I don't think England should have played in Zimbabwe but you have to ask yourself would Mugabe even care if they didn't?

[EFM's Librarian]

The point here seems to be the reason the ECB have given for not pulling out of the game 'We have too much money tied up in it...we could lose millions and our sponsors won't be happy'

The corporate world has once again insisted that money comes before any consideration of human rights. Okay it probably wouldn't make much difference to the people of zimbabwe (black or white) whether its played or not, but if it wasn't for all the money involved, the ECB would have been a lot less insistent on playing

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

I do partially agree with you EFM's L however the goverment should of bailed the ECB out, they haven't got much money and pulling out would of bankrupted them.

Should of tried to go under the credit guarentee scheme, rouge nation defaulting and all that.

[AFF]

There is consistency EFMTFTV. You have difficulty with words with a 'g' in the last few letters. 'League' is spelt like that. 'Leauge' doesn't spell anything. 'Rouge' is spelt like that. 'Rogue' is spelt like that. There is probably one of those "i before e except after c" sayings that could help. They are called something but I can't remember what.

 

Anyway, back to the point.

 

Have you noticed that Tone's lap-dogs, otherwise known as the media, are encouraging debate about the cricket team and Zimbabwe. Does it occur to you that this deflects any discussion over whether H.M. Government should be 'doing anything' about Zimbabwe?

 

Perhaps we should send a U.N Inspection Team to find Mugabe's..........wait for it.........you know what's coming......... weapons of mass destruction, as a pre-cursor to going in to bomb the bstards. Oh, hang on a minute. There's no oil in Zimbabwe. Keep the pressure on those upper class twits who play cricket, then.

 

[CANV EFM]

could we not just send a u.n. inspection team there to find a decent leg spinner? (great last paragraph AFF)

[Tom S]

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could we not just send a u.n. inspection team there to find a decent leg spinner?

Wouldn't do much good. If he's Zimbabwean he wouldn't be eligible for England.