Geoff Boycott - a Ron Atkinson moment?

[Tooting Gull]

Just driving to work this afternoon, Boycott was talking on talkSPORT about the great West Indies side of the 70s/80s, and their famed pace attack.

His description of their embarrassment of riches in that department went like this:

"With the West Indies it was a bit like shaking one of their coconut trees - only every time a fast bowler fell out, and not a coconut."

Now, I know the wife-beater is a bit 'old school' and unlikely to win any PC contests, but isn't this unacceptable? The presenters (Hawksbee and Jacobs) swiftly moved the conversation on.

 

[Gazwag]

Why , I cant see the word n****r in that sentence

 

[bhaexpress]

Just driving to work this afternoon, Boycott was talking on talkSPORT about the great West Indies side of the 70s/80s, and their famed pace attack.

His description of their embarrassment of riches in that department went like this:

"With the West Indies it was a bit like shaking one of their coconut trees - only every time a fast bowler fell out, and not a coconut."

Now, I know the wife-beater is a bit 'old school' and unlikely to win any PC contests, but isn't this unacceptable? The presenters (Hawksbee and Jacobs) swiftly moved the conversation on.

What's so offensive about that ? It's not as though he was comparing West Indians to coconuts is it ? I can't stand the bloke personally but I can't see what's so offensive about that statement.

 

[sten_super]

He's said that they had coconut trees, and lots of coconuts, and lots of fast bowlers. Where's the offence?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I thought it was just a poor analogy to the fact that pace bowlers were growing on trees back then. As opposed to them living in trees

Nowadays, most atheletes from the Windies seem to shun cricket in favour of richer sports. Perhaps that will now change with the birth of Twenty20 and the IPL etc.

 

[Knotty]

He was only repeating something that has been said in cricket many times for many years.

 

[Tooting Gull]

I'm just asking the question. Shaking the NSC tree, and seeing what falls out.

 

[Silent Bob]

I thought it was just a poor analogy to the fact that pace bowlers were growing on trees back then. As opposed to them living in trees

Yes, exactly.

They probably wouldn't mind on talkSport anyway, they probably think Ron Atkinson's sacking is pc gawn mad or somesuch.

 

[Chicken Run]

I'm just asking the question. Shaking the NSC tree, and seeing what falls out.

Thank you for that, "Shaking the NSC tree, and seeing what falls out" translates to shit stiring

 

[Tooting Gull]

Thank you for that, "Shaking the NSC tree, and seeing what falls out" translates to shit stiring

Only if you allow yourself to be stirred. But I consider myself duly chastised, of course there's no place for that sort of thing on here... maybe the next thread should be about White membership in relation to Man City tickets. I mean, what was the point of filling out that form anyway.

 

[Chicken Run]

Only if you allow yourself to be stirred. But I consider myself duly chastised, of course there's no place for that sort of thing on here... maybe the next thread should be about White membership in relation to Man City tickets. I mean, what was the point of filling out that form anyway.

Oh look at you, you old softyhears somthing on talk shit with black crickerters and trees and runs to NSC and posts : and you didnt get the reaction you wanted did you

 

[Brovion]

He's said that they had coconut trees, and lots of coconuts, and lots of fast bowlers. Where's the offence?

Agreed, but in today's intolerant, paternalistic, over-regulated, neo-Victorian society SOMEBODY is bound to find it offensive. Therefore (so the theory goes) it IS offensive.

I don't think there's anybody on NSC who's that precious, but you never know.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

I'm just asking the question. Shaking the NSC tree, and seeing what falls out.

Cabbages

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

http://sharetv.org/images/fawlty_towers_uk/majorgowen-ballardberkeley-char.jpg

 

[Storer68]

Especially as the English ued to say that all they had to do to find a new fast bowler was to go down the mines

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

No No No, the West Indians are not ni**ers the Indians are ni**ers, the West Indians are the wo*s. Very un pc but quite amusing at the time, it has now be bleeped out in any repeats.

 

[Gully]

I would probably be described as being fairly PC in my outlook and whilst that might be a bit of a poor analogy it can't really be described as racist...he could have said that every time the stork visited it delivered a fast bowler...or something like that. Our Geoff isn't the brightest tool in the box, but he isn't in Ron Atkinson's league, he is just a boring old twat who used to score runs slower than paint dried.

 

[Clapham Old Mug]

Did he say anything about his tendency to be unavailable for series against oppo with quick bowlers? Curiously, he never seems to mention it when describing his golden career on air...