We’re having an important ethical debate here at CWB: Would you sponsor Jrod to punch Ian Bell?
Leave aside the minor details such as ‘How hard would the punch be?’ or ‘But doesn’t Jrod punch like a girl?’ and consider whether this would be a wrong thing to do.
Bell is small, ginger, supports Aston Villa and went to a very minor public school. On any level, he’s an endangered species. Is right to inflict more violence upon him than a legion of cricket journalists have managed since 2004?
Post your thoughts below. Meanwhile, I’m off to watch Jrod dropkick a panda.
He’s a leprechaun. It’s unethical.
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No idea why all the underachieving pricks are suddenly achieving.
Cook, Bell, Watson, Hauritz, Harris, Salman Butt, Virat Kohli?
It’s not unethical for sure. But I’d rather see him get hit in the nuts by a rising delivery from Morne.
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No. You cannot hit anybody. It is not nice.
Unless you start with Graham Gooch.
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Not in the nuts. A throw ball in the head would do just fine. When he’s not wearing a helmet.
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No. The trouble is Aston Villa are a team nobody hates enough. And Bell was a hero in Cape Town.
People in English cricket you can punch as much as you like: Giles Clarke, Usman Afzaal, in fact almost anyone affiliated to Surrey (except for Sir Mark Ramprakash), Dermot Reeve and a few other twats I can’t think of right now.
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I would love to know what percentage of contributors to this silly website wears gold chains around their necks?
Jacques, 7%.
Only if we all get to punch him
Oh, thanks jrod, I was thinking that it must be in the high 40′s at least. Cheers.
I do have one suggestion, though. Do you think we can put Nathan Bracken on the villains list for wearing an Alice band? Surely that’s reason enough. Keep up the good work!
Jacques, If Bracken ended up on the villains list it would be because he is meh, rather than for the Alice band, I can’t bag him for that as my man Imran Tahir wears one.
Punching Bell would be like killing kittens therefore it is a task best left to South Africans
Jacques, Jrod was only giving the percentage of real gold chains. ask him the gold plated chains
Lol. It’s true, Tahir does wear an alice band. I was a bit shocked when I looked him up on youtube. And he was in the South African squad for a day. It will be a disaster if we have an alice band wearing player in the side. How the world has changed. :)
Yes. Where do I sign?
im sure you could get him to agree. just tell him that if he gets 100 next game, he gets $100. if he doesn’t, he gets it to the face. of course, he’ll crack under the pressure. i wrote all this without actually considering why he deserves it….
You should be warned you brats Bell has taken up boxing – official. Now who is first?
Ian Bell constitutes the Mendoza Line of English test cricket & the fact that the eminently more punchable Rob Key will always reside beneath said line of batting ineptitude makes him alright by default.