Boycott(s)

by PeterCS Thu 26 Feb 2009, 20:47

At this stage, I don't know what to make of him.

I'm beginning to think there might be three Boykses out there.

1. Insightful, excellent reader of the game. Both its technical and its mental aspects. Well- informed, long memory and rich experience of cricket and cricketers.

2. Good-natured, occasionally silly joker (and forgivable Man Utd obsessive). Never suffering fools gladly, but in this mood, in a generally playful, knockabout, even generous-spirited way.

3. When he "turns", an insensitive, bullying slasher with no social skills at all.

Do you lot like him - or possibly "them"?

by Basil Thu 26 Feb 2009, 20:50

Wouldn't say "like" but I don't think there's a better reader of the game doing the rounds in TV commentary boxes - apart from the sainted Richie of course.

by Merlin Thu 26 Feb 2009, 20:56

For all his wife-beating foibles I like Boycs ... if only he'd rid himself of the curled-lip constant f**king nasal boring Yorkshire whinge-like tone in his voice, he'd appear more plausible ... ie., persuasive but insincere !!