>> To balance your ? No, I don't think I can be a***d.
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>> I think you need to to a bit more reading. Start with the replies above.
>> Keep reading until you manage to grasp what was said.
I'd read them before replying. None of the above 'wild and ridiculous fantasies' schizzle has any meaning in relation to what I wrote.
Most media seem to be shy of printing what he actually said; we have to rely in the Sun to have the balls to do it:
www.thesun.co.uk/sport/16777869/azeem-rafiq-anti-semitic-facebook-post-racism-yorkshire/
The usual old trope of Jews being tight with money and after anything that's free, like seconds at meal times. It was certainly commonplace in the whole of society not that long ago to use the word Jew as substitute for swindle - 'he'll Jew you' was certainly in use well into the seventies. So was the phrase 'thieving Arab'.
He shouldn't have said it and he's now apologised.
It's beyond absurd to try an suggest that a short set of 'off' comments makes a nonsense of his real hurt at the concerted ill treatment he received and his reaction to how it affected his life.
Whoever dug this up and passed it on to the media, surely not somebody in the cricket establishment, is trying to divert.
And judging by the reaction of some here they've succeeded,
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Fri 19 Nov 21 at 08:45
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