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l8bf2l5sn91bsbs30ehnndrqmlqioba1tu@4ax.com>, max. it
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max@tea.time> writes
On Mon, 8 Jun 2026 21:57:20 +0100, John Hall <john@jhall.co.uk> wrote:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/articles/c0ry801k2geo
I'm astonished by the stupidity of Stokes and Atkinson, especially
Stokes. Apparently the midnight curfew was still in force on Sunday
night, even though the Test had finished. Did they really think that
they could remain in a nightclub into the small hours without the media >>picking up on it? The as yet unspecified "incident" that apparently then >>took place makes matters worse, of course. Reading between the lines, it >>looks as though there may have been some aggro between them and a
Saracens rugby player.
McCullum and Key must feel badly let down.
It's very frustrating but people behave in these ways because they
don't believe that they will be caught. It's the same principle that
applies to the arguement against capital punishment. A high profile
sports figure who thinks that they won't get caught misbehaving must
be a wee bit dim at best..... Ah well, they could be in the news for
doing worse.
max.it.
But if they had half a brain they'd have known that being caught was
almost inevitable. Stokes is too well-known, and almost everyone now has
a smartphone with a built-in camera. I suspect that they started off
intending to leave before midnight, but that after they'd had a few
drinks they lost sight of that. Apparently they were accompanied by an ECB-hired security guard, and one would have thought that his duties
might have included seeing that his charges didn't break the curfew, but apparently not.
At least it seems, according to my morning paper, that the Saracens
player - one of a group celebrating their end of season - was the
aggressor, aiming a punch at Atkinson, which missed and hit the security
guy.
--
John Hall
"The covers of this book are too far apart."
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
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