Published: February 13, 2019
England captain has done cricket a great service – his reaction to a perceived homophobic remark was cool, calm, collected … and right
from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2Dwnsyw
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Cricketers call it sledging, or chirping: the business of trying to undermine your opponent with verbal abuse. It’s a dismal habit that shows us sport at its most small-minded and should have been banned long ago. But this week it has done the world a favour.
In the Test in St Lucia, the West Indies bowler Shannon Gabriel was bad-mouthing the England captain, Joe Root. What Gabriel said the stump microphone did not catch but it did bring us Root’s reply: “Don’t use it as an insult. There’s nothing wrong with being gay.”
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