Yesterday, I watched a bit of Lancashire County Cricket Club’s opening match on YouTube. Sky are too interested in the crash, bang wallop of 20/20 cricket to cover County cricket nowadays, so the clubs show the games themselves. Initially, a year or two ago, the coverage was unwatchable (a fixed camera and no sound).
Imagine my pleasant surprise, to see multi cameras (some moving) and pretty slick presentation, including David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd as a pundit and commentator.
I recall him saying he was retiring from commentary and expected never to see him again.
Well, my initial suspicions that he was asked to leave and probably paid off by Sky look a possibility now. You see, he offended the hypocrite that is Azeem Rafiq, no stranger to being cunted here.
Lloyd revealed in a recent interview that he felt a bit lonely on commentary when they got rid of Ian Botham and David Gower. It was pretty obvious to me Lloyd found it difficult to have the bawdy jokes he used to have with his old mates on commentary. I can recall him saying things like, “The umpires getting his ringpiece out.” And he once did a hilarious innuendo laden demonstration on how to change the rubber grip on a bat (“Slide that rubber down the shaft lad. That’s it! Give it a good rub up and down.”)
If he tried to have a laugh with the new woke wimminz and token dark keys (who replaced the likes of Botham, Gower and the late Shane Warne), it just didn’t work.
And he hated it, you could tell. It seems he was told to stop being funny, which is the way he’s always commentated. Too risky in the current climate.
With Rafiq, it seems Lloyd sent private messages to ‘friends’ to say an inconvenient truth, with regards to Asians contributing to the running of local clubs, “Getting subs from Asian players is like getting blood from a stone.” One of his ‘friends’ (unknown) grassed him up. What a cunt!
Anyway, my point is that cancel culture is now ruining sports coverage. Instead of a commentary team having shared experiences as players and joking about them, they’ve shoehorned in some chippy, unfunny splitarses who do not share the same experiences. And it’s fucking shite. Cricket is a long game with breaks in action. Funny stories help with those gaps in action. Now, no cunt dare say anything, unless it’s to go on about some blm/woke shite.
Test cricket fans may understand what I mean, when I say that test cricket commentary has always been entertaining and different to any other sport…until recently.
The good news is that it will lose Sky custom and make cunts like Rafiq unemployable.
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