Boycott unlikely to be knighted

Good grief, the bloke is an arrogant tosspot.

Said he'd need to 'black up' to get a knighthood. The comment referenced various WI ex players who had received knighthoods. 

No Pom ex-player has been knighted since Beefy. Doubt ER would be amused, 



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Most of the WI cricketers were knighted by their own governments. Beefy got his for charity work.

Boycott is a dickhead.

Having said that, one could argue that English cricketers have been shortchanged when compared to other sports.

taipan wrote:Having said that, one could argue that English cricketers have been shortchanged when compared to other sports.

How many true world greats have we had in the past 50 years though? Even the MBEs given out en masse for winning the Ashes in 2005 were widely criticised, along with the sense of entitlement that it seemed to give to that generation of players who in most cases never came close to reaching those heights again.

Cook could be a candidate in future particularly if he goes on to break the world Test runscoring record, he already has a CBE (second highest honour).

beamer wrote:

taipan wrote:Having said that, one could argue that English cricketers have been shortchanged when compared to other sports.

How many true world greats have we had in the past 50 years though? Even the MBEs given out en masse for winning the Ashes in 2005 were widely criticised, along with the sense of entitlement that it seemed to give to that generation of players who in most cases never came close to reaching those heights again.

Cook could be a candidate in future particularly if he goes on to break the world Test runscoring record, he already has a CBE (second highest honour).

Well the last Pom cricketing knight was Bedser in 1996, having played his last test in 1955. Cowdrey played later but got his gong in 1992, but both did a lot of admin work.

Since 1995 arguments could be made for May, Trueman, Barrington, Gower, and even Boycott. At his peak even KP was world class. In other sports people seem to have been knighted for purely sporting achievements without services after retiring. Either way it was just a personal view of the matter.

The phenomenon of "active" (or just retired) sporting knights/dames I think started with the likes of Redgrave and the other Olympians who followed, so most of those were too long ago to benefit from that.

Even football hasn't produced a large number of them. Again, failings in the national shirt are the major factor... but even the 1966 team haven't all been retrospectively honoured.

Boycott should be the LAST man considered ... even before these comments, which should disqualify him for all time. Selfish, unsportsmanlike, arrogant, racist, and a wife-beater ... no shred of merit.

Precisely. Would be up there with the knighting of Terry Lewis and John Kerr.

Did he really use the phrase "blacked up"? If so, why hasn't he been sacked?

JGK wrote:Did he really use the phrase "blacked up"?   If so, why hasn't he been sacked?

Ah, I've just seen his Twitter feed and see that he has issued a grovelling apology.

Pompous self-interested cock gurgler

Yes. He apologised. Mystery why he was not fired. MacNob is unemployable in the oz media. Maybe the pom media has quota system for employment of vicious sociopaths.

Bump. Maybe Stokes' canonisation helped Boycs.

I stand by my comments of 23/08/2017 above.

All those would not have been disadvantageous to play for Yorkshire back in the day. 

Any comment yet from Gideon Haigh about the be-sirring of Geoffrey? In one often-repeated ABC Grandstand interview, Gidders described his first meeting with Boycott as the ultimate story to which the moral was 'never meet your heroes' - ' I discovered that all the critics from outside Yorkshire were sctually right - the man was a complete tit'