Booing at cricket matches. Daily Mail supports it for Aussie cricketers; what about Boris Johnson at the Oval?
The Daily Mail (25th June) is calling on spectators to boo Australian cricketers David Warner and Steve Smith as they face England in a Cricket World Cup match at Lords on Tuesday. They note England captain Morgan supports the idea.
Both men were found guilty of ball tampering and served a ban from the game which is now over. Some England players have called on spectators not to boo the pair.
One wonders if the Mail can remember September 2018 when Boris Johnson was booed on the Saturday of the final Test at the Oval between England and India after TV cameras flashed up on the big screens available to spectators a picture of the backbench Tory MP playing with his mobile phone? Did they back that?
For many politicians it might have caused a dip in their career fortunes but of course Johnson just carried on.
Booing is part of political theatre and its worth keeping in mind that whatever their faults and qualities Smith and Warner are cricketers
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