It's Tough Being Me - The Kevin Pietersen Story

[four_or_six]

Originally Posted by benchmark00

Chix dig a man with a softer side.

And we all dig benchy so... looks like he must do.

[fredfertang]

Originally Posted by four_or_six

And we all dig benchy so... looks like he must do.

Why has this not been disclosed previously?

[four_or_six]

Originally Posted by fredfertang

Why has this not been disclosed previously?

I thought it had?

[grecian]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

All this "insults or the perception thereof by electronic social media" is really too ghey for words, isn't it? When did international sportsmen turn into needy teenage girls? Where the **** does it end? Pietersen getting a monk on because Swann unfriends him on Facebook?

Remember the good old days when men used to just chin someone they had an issue with? Sigh.

Damn Brumbers makes a case much better than me again, but kind of what I've been saying all along.

Trego also said something similar

[uvelocity]

speaking of benching and KP I think he'd struggle with a snickers

[Jono]

Originally Posted by benchmark00

Chix dig a man with a softer side.

Is that what you say to yourself when you can't get it up?

[FBU]

Well the bowlers union have their say

Anderson
Kevin talked about having issues within the dressing room. What’s frustrating is that this was, literally, the first we knew about it. Kevin has mentioned nothing to us.

Broad
'Certainly within the four walls, I wouldn't have thought there was a problem.

Swann
I'd just say that, if there were issues, we pride ourselves on having a very open dressing room and he certainly didn't mention any problems to anyone else.’

Bresnan
"I was very surprised when he said those things in his press conference at the end of the Leeds game, and I think a few of the other lads were as surprised as I was.
"I didn't feel anything had changed inside the dressing-room - there was no bickering, no fighting, there was nothing."Personally I've got no problem with Kevin.

Then Prior had that talk with KP and in his unretirement video said he was now fine with the dressing room and couldn't wait to get back.

Then the texts to some SA players.....

Wonder what the dressing room will be like when he returns?

[social]

Originally Posted by benchmark00

How about you read some posts in this thread? I've already described what Pietersen needs to do and why he needs to do it.

And it's utter horse**** because it wont prove a thing

[Viscount Tom]

England's South Africans are on a sticky wicket - Telegraph

Meanwhile some tosspot has made this article which is pretty dross it has to be said.

[vic_orthdox]

Never let a politics writer into sport.

[Spikey]

foreigners eh. someone oughta do somethin' about 'em

[vic_orthdox]

I love the part about Trott.

"He's been the model professional so far... but just you wait!!"

[grecian]

Pretty disgraceful stuff really. Yet it's the Torygraph, so not surprising.

[BoyBrumby]

It's a peculiar piece for Oborne to write. Now I usually lean towards the "only good Tory is a dead Tory" style of old-school unreconstructed leftism, but I have a lot of time for him. He's from the anglican, paternalistic, one-nation wing of conservatism and has campaigned at various times against Apartheid and Israel's occupation of Palestine, so could arguably be said to be somewhat to the left of New Labour on some important issues. He also noteably wrote a wholly excellent (and, if not definitive, then certainly the tome against which future efforts will be judged) biography of Basil D'Oliveira, who represented Blighty with great honour and no little skill, so for him to say:

Originally Posted by Peter Oborne

is it possible to be born and brought up as a South African and give your full loyalty to England? I believe not.

Seems quite a stunning volte face.

His article ignores SA-born players like Robin Smith, who was one of the bravest and least selfish players to wear the three lions when I was a young shaver, for no other reason than Judgey doesn't seem to fit the ugly Saffer archetype he's constructed.

For my money the thing that unites Greig & Pietersen could just as easily be that they're avaricious arseholes, not that they're South African.

[Jacknife]

Originally Posted by sledger

I wonder who would emerge as victorious in a fight between all of the English side tbh. None of them particularly strike me as the kind who'd be capable of knocking your block off.

Originally Posted by Jager

I reckon Swanny would be a nutter. Maybe Prior? Got some rage in him, he does

Funny you should mention Prior, I remember few years ago talking to one of the Yorkshire players and somehow a similar topic got brought up and he said apparently Prior's meant to be a bit of a hard bastard.

Can't imagine too many of the England players or cricketers in general ever having too many fights ever, probably won't know how to.