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March 6, 2006

Boycott goes all the way up to eleven

At the press conference after England’s draw on Sunday there was noise interference from a source that should know better - in fact one who would undoubtedly claim to know better than you or I or anyone else about matters cricketing.

Sir Geoffrey Boycott (8114 Test runs at 47.72, 108 caps) was being interviewed for Indian television a whole two partitioned walls away from where Freddie Flintoff was attempting to address the British media. Despite the fact that Freddie was speaking into a microphone, and through loud speakers, his voice was easily drowned out by an unplugged Geoffrey hammering his points home.

England’s media relations manager, Andrew Walpole, even attempted to get him to turn the volume down a little but he might as well have been smacking a blancmange, and a loud one at that.

Posted by Miles.Jupp at March 6, 2006 12:21 PM