Sarge
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Several 'years' more ....so it seemed at the timeYeah, but Boycott occupied the crease for much longer...
Several 'years' more ....so it seemed at the timeYeah, but Boycott occupied the crease for much longer...
Long overdue. Boycott is not just a cricketing icon but a great broadcaster too. Speaks his mind
Some might say that might not be a bad thing...No one would ever get a knighthood, there skeletons in everyone’s cupboard.
I don’t get the furore either over his supposed domestic violence case. He’s always denied it and although it can’t be proved, you suspect someone as straight and searingly honest as he appears would be incapable of lying for 25 years.
If there’s a clamour to rescind his knighthood then perhaps we ought to do the same with Sir Mick Jagger, convicted of drug offences 50 odd years ago.
Well that's the thing, here, isn't it. It's not that he was accused of domestic abuse; he was convicted by a French court; a conviction that then held up on appeal. An independent doctor testified that the injuries his former partner suffered couldn't have happened the way Boycott described.
In the eyes of French law - which has some differences but is comparable with our own - it was proven that he was an abuser.
Can courts get it wrong? Of course.
But also just because some random bloke says he's innocent every day for 25 years, doesn't mean that's true either. Lance Armstrong said he was innocent every day for a decade - turned out he was a lying sociopath. Boycott could be as well - and personally I think that's more likely than an independent court sifting through all the evidence, finding it sufficient to prove him guilty, and being wrong. Not 100% certain - but more likely.
Also I personally think that pinning a woman down and punching her in the face is significantly worse than taking some psychedelic drugs.....but maybe that's just me.
I thought he spoke very well when Stokes "won" the Third Test.Speaks his mind again, and again, and again, and again. Make your point and move on Geoff. Great batsman; undeniably. Great broadcaster; not for me.