Topic: Azeem Rafiq and Yorkshire CCC (Read 26845 times)

ppccopener · « **Reply #105 on:** November 16, 2021, 06:58:05 PM »

It�s getting worse for Ballance as drug allegations are surfacing�with Yorkshire allegedly covering them over.

They would not be the first club to do this thou before the pitchforks come out

Bats_Entertainment · « **Reply #106 on:** November 16, 2021, 07:03:26 PM »

There's certainly going to be some solicitors being kept busy.

Yorkershire · « **Reply #107 on:** November 16, 2021, 07:05:54 PM »

Looking forward to counties panicking... now that sponsors might withdraw...

Fair play to Hoggard for apologising straight away... I just hope it was genuine... which I feel was...

I get alcohol is a big part of English culture... but why is it so central to clubs looking for people to play cricket...

Have a curry night or offer veg alternatives... sometimes when people don't drink they could feel not a part of the club or team. So let them know in other ways...

Again people are different and don't want to feel as if they are causing more trouble than it's worth...

Yorkershire · « **Reply #108 on:** November 16, 2021, 07:07:44 PM »

Quote from: ppccopener on November 16, 2021, 06:58:05 PM

It�s getting worse for Ballance as drug allegations are surfacing�with Yorkshire allegedly covering them over.

They would not be the first club to do this thou before the pitchforks come out

I've read somewhere that football clubs have fixers to keep headlines away...

Understandable when you got a daft 18 year old away from family with more money than people will see in their lives.

Not the brightest bunch footballers especially at that age...

Bats_Entertainment · « **Reply #109 on:** November 16, 2021, 07:13:21 PM »

Quote from: Yorkershire on November 16, 2021, 07:07:44 PM

Not the brightest bunch footballers especially at that age...

Well, that's a sweeping generalisation if ever I heard one!

Classist?

Yorkershire · « **Reply #110 on:** November 16, 2021, 07:14:16 PM »

Quote from: Bats_Entertainment on November 16, 2021, 07:13:21 PM

Well, that's a sweeping generalisation if ever I heard one!

Classist?

unlike us cricketers...

Yorkershire · « **Reply #111 on:** November 16, 2021, 07:15:20 PM »

Good catch though... I should have prefixed.."some of these.."

Bats_Entertainment · « **Reply #112 on:** November 16, 2021, 07:19:02 PM »

Also: "Have a curry night."

"I'm not a racist. I love a good curry."

SD · « **Reply #113 on:** November 16, 2021, 07:20:05 PM »

The full text of the witness statement that Rafiq prepared for his employment tribunal claim has been published. It is a difficult read to understand what life as a Muslim player at Yorkshire was like.

Also very disappointing to see that Hoggard was the player who came up with the Raffa the Kaffir slur. As someone who played in South Africa as a young payer and toured there as an international, he must have understood how offensive that term is

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/cricket/azeem-rafiq-dcms-yorkshire-racism-crisis-testimony-b966488.html

SD · « **Reply #114 on:** November 16, 2021, 07:23:37 PM »

Quote from: Bats_Entertainment on November 16, 2021, 05:34:14 PM

He said Asian cricketers don't go in the bar. Is this really racist?

The issue seems to be that Lloyd made a call to a journalist who had been supportive of Rafiq to make comments about Rafiq which seem to have been intended to discredit Rafiq and therefore the allegations he was making. Aside from his generalised comments about Asian players, he is being implicated in Yorkshire's efforts to cover this up rather than dealing with it

Yorkershire · « **Reply #115 on:** November 16, 2021, 07:24:49 PM »

Quote from: Bats_Entertainment on November 16, 2021, 07:19:02 PM

Also: "Have a curry night."

"I'm not a racist. I love a good curry."

I'm asian and I love it when we have a curry at our club!!!

Bats_Entertainment · « **Reply #116 on:** November 16, 2021, 07:27:33 PM »

Quote from: Yorkershire on November 16, 2021, 07:24:49 PM

I'm asian and I love it when we have a curry at our club!!!

I love a curry too. I just don't like it when people make a song and a dance about liking a curry. It's almost like they're trying to hide something?

Yorkershire · « **Reply #117 on:** November 16, 2021, 07:29:09 PM »

Not in this context...

Bats_Entertainment · « **Reply #118 on:** November 16, 2021, 07:29:34 PM »

Quote from: SD on November 16, 2021, 07:23:37 PM

The issue seems to be that Lloyd made a call to a journalist who had been supportive of Rafiq to make comments about Rafiq which seem to have been intended to discredit Rafiq and therefore the allegations he was making. Aside from his generalised comments about Asian players, he is being implicated in Yorkshire's efforts to cover this up rather than dealing with it

Again, I didn't know this. Thanks.

Bats_Entertainment · « **Reply #119 on:** November 16, 2021, 07:31:27 PM »

Quote from: Yorkershire on November 16, 2021, 07:29:09 PM

Not in this context...

Not in a "have a curry night and all will be well" context?

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