KP's Book

Am enjoying reading this. It is bringing out the best in FB wit and creative thinking.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/cricketnext/kevin-pietersen-blames-andy-flower-for-choking-england/504821-78.html

And KP has launched a fresh attack upon Flower.

George Cole as Giles Clarke

The guy that played Frankie Abbott in Please Sir: Jimmy Anderson

Bernard Hill to play Graham Gooch.

Julian Clary to play Stuart Broad.

Not quite my genre but whoever plays the sunglass- wearing syborg in the Terminator movies has to be Graeme Swann.

(Frankie A: David Barry)

Richard Kiel (RIP) as Tremlett.

Now Biff backs up KP.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/oct/09/graeme-smith-kevin-pietersen-england-bullying

Winkle Spinner wrote:Richard Kiel (RIP) as Tremlett.

He wasn't quite right for the role when he was alive, but now he's active enough to do Chris' famous fitness justice.

Brass Monkey wrote:Julian Clary to play Stuart Broad.

Graham Norton to play Swann?

lardbucket wrote:Graham Norton to play Swann?

I would have thought James Corden to play Swanny.

And as for Punter's opinion - if there was ever an expert on being bullied by an England cricket team he is right up there!

Unsurprisingly, Andrew Strauss has come out and backed Andy Flower....

"A lot of this that's going on at the moment is madness," Strauss told Sky Sports. "There's been a lot of rumour, innuendo and opinion. I prefer to stick with the facts. All this tit-for-tat stuff, I don't think really helps the England cricket team.
"The victim here really isn't Kevin Pietersen, or Andy Flower or Matt Prior or anyone; it's actually the England cricket team and Alastair Cook and Peter Moores who've got to try to take the side forward. That, to me, is the disappointing thing about this whole episode."


http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/current/story/788303.html


Wildly hypocritical stuff from a man who lowered himself down to the same level by calling Pietersen a "c*nt" live on air earlier this Summer.

Andrew Strauss, fairly predictably, goes in to bat for Flower and Prior.

(nicked off for single figures after the bowler came around the wicket)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/29561099

Snap. Although you did have three minutes. Nice tits....

errrr, which bit of that quote backs Andy Flower?

Basil wrote:errrr, which bit of that quote backs Andy Flower?

Hmm. None. But it's in the link....Oh wait...I forgot to put the link there....Hmm.  Not a great five minutes of forumming all-round. The point is- Strauss doesn't have a leg to stand on after c*nt-gate.

And then we come back to KP falling out with every (repeat, every) side he's ever played for. They ain't all wrong. The trouble is - that it's that baggage which will debase any valid criticism of the current England hierarchy. Result? - everything carries on in much the same way as it did before.

I just wonder where all the man-management skills went. If you read Nasser's autobiography, it's a wonderful insight into the different ways he handled Gough, Caddick, Tufnell, Thorpe...all very different personalities.

With this current England side, it seems to be a case of "this way or the highway"....otherwise known as the 'Ray Illingworth method'.....And look at the results it's producing on the field....

Moores has talked a lot about reconnecting the side with its supporters, but I have yet to see any evidence. I don't want to see any of them doing Celebrity Big Brother, but the occasional interview without agents , managers and sponsors in tow would be a start.

taipan wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:This is the most embarrassing fiasco to come out of English cricket - worse than the 5-0 thrashing. The level of banality coming from the runners of a governing body and from seasoned professional cricketing adults is something even FlamingBails at its very worst cannot rival.

Aye, where is tac when we need him.

agree tac shd return ....it is unreasonable to expect Nigel and Bucky to carry (or drop) the load by themselves...

the traumatised escapee goats from the infamous basement make more sense than the ECB

Henry wrote:I just wonder where all the man-management skills went. If you read Nasser's autobiography, it's a wonderful insight into the different ways he handled Gough, Caddick, Tufnell, Thorpe...all very different personalities.

With this current England side, it seems to be a case of "this way or the highway"....otherwise known as the 'Ray Illingworth method'.....And look at the results it's producing on the field....

ah come on...the result are not that bad...you flogged the bannies after all...and who knows the whitewash v the Oz could just have been an oddity

horace wrote:

Henry wrote:I just wonder where all the man-management skills went. If you read Nasser's autobiography, it's a wonderful insight into the different ways he handled Gough, Caddick, Tufnell, Thorpe...all very different personalities.

With this current England side, it seems to be a case of "this way or the highway"....otherwise known as the 'Ray Illingworth method'.....And look at the results it's producing on the field....

ah come on...the result are not that bad...you flogged the bannies after all...and who knows the whitewash v the Oz could just have been an oddity

flogging the Indians at home? Next we'll be considering having a wholesome shit a success for their careers...

now the poms beating the Bannies in Banindia in their previous series may well have been the high water mark in english cricket over the last 25 years...certainly Oz are not capable of this at the mo

Yeah, that was a fair effort.

Useless c*nts.