Hard-boiled Botham hasn’t read cricket racism report but scrambles to attack it | Barney Ronay


Egg-fearing cricketing maverick is furious at carefully sourced report’s findings. Has he made his Durham position untenable?

“When I open a hard-boiled egg and I take the first mouthful and I think, what’s that, and then the second mouthful – there’s half an embryo in it. Well, excuse me but I find that a little bit revolting.” And quite right too. Finally someone has had the guts to say it. Embryo egg bites, imposed on everyday country people by the postcode weekenders of the London wokelite. Wake up sheeple. And when you’ve finally woken up, please buy my bespoke Beefy-blockchain NFTs.

Ian Botham’s appearance on the youth TV show Open To Question in 1986 has already passed into internet legend, long before it began to feel like a brilliantly prescient forerunner of the current bloom of speak-your-brains free-thinker YouTube channels telling you the truths they don’t want you to hear.

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