Rattling Rafa? It’s just not cricket

GETTING politics out of sport is like draining oil out of sand. You’d be better off taking preventative action to stop it getting there in the first place.

We’re having a little crisis over here in our other national sport, but when one cricketer’s alleged cheating suddenly becomes an insult to an entire nation, you sense there are unscrupulous people ready to turn anything, no matter how trivial, to their own advantage.

My city’s noted for its bolshiness, so it was unusual to see our manager in the bad guy role, being hectored by a politically motivated journalist before last week’s game in Kiev. It was Through Fingers TV.