Once Again on Geoffrey Boycott & Test Match Special: now blaming the ‘political climate’
It’s fair to say I think that Geoffrey Boycott is not someone that keeps to the first law of holes.
When it was announced at the weekend that he would not be part of the Test Match Special team this year it was couched in terms of his health as a 79 year old in a time of COVID-19.
He had an exchange with the BBC’s Head of Sport to the effect that this was understood and he had enjoyed his time with TMS and hoped still to make the occasional appearance.
At the same time he managed to retweet a line that claimed he was dropped because while he knew about cricket he was a white, straight Tory etc. He subsequently deleted it.
He then proceeded to return to the fray with a column in Monday’s Telegraph.
He claims that the real reason why he was dropped from TMS was because his knighthood (from Theresa May) opened up again his conviction in France for beating up a previous partner, a conviction he continues to dispute.
He goes on to claim that therefore the political climate is responsible for his being dropped by TMS. Given that it’d be difficult to find a more politically incorrect than PM than Boris Johnson it might be wondered what he is on about (as often).
The detail of the article is of course equally controversial. Geoffrey opines that while female ex-players are ok as commentators as are both men and women who haven’t played at all they can’t be analysts and summarisers (like Geoffrey) because they don’t know what real Test cricket (played by men) is like.
Given that Boycott last played a Test in 1982 one wonders how relevant his experience, except at the very broadest level, is now.
There are some of course who feel (probably correctly) that he should have been dropped long since
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