Political Cricketness Gone Mad
TheEye is a former cricketer (to a limited standard) and remains an ongoing armchair fan of the great game.
Middlesex won the 2008 20/20 slogathon at the Rosebowl – home of TheEye’s former team – but unfortunately they did it under a name which some people who are sworn under their religious book to enslave non-believers weren’t happy with.
Middlesex Crusaders.
Anyway, so turn the page. A couple of Muslims have complained about the name and therefore it needs to be altered or else there will be trouble. The dhimmi’s have caved in and they are going to re-brand themselves as the Panthers. Pathetic – although the always excellent Tractorstats has added in the comments on GOT that it’s rather ironic that the new name is now along the lines of the Black Panthers. More than a little ironic, actually.
This wasn’t going to be announced until March but some acne-riddled teenager in the PR department at Middlesex seems to have leaked it prematurely so everybody is in full damage-limitation mode.
It’s also hardly surprising that the BBC and the GrumpyOldTwat report this very same story in two completely different ways. The BBC never seem to use the ‘M’ word.
I hadn’t seen the BBC version until I followed your link. Needless to say, I was absolutely fucking astounded when I read it.
No mention whatsoever of the mindless connotations of ‘crusader’.
Another classic case of British Broadcasting Cunteration censorship!
Humph!
Just saw that – amazing.It will go up on Biased BBC.
As an Anglo Saxon minority victim I DEMAND that The Cleveland State baseball team rebrand themselves since it is innapropriate in 2009 for a team to celebrate rapists, pillagers and ethnic cleansers with the name VIKINGS.