Bob Woolmer

[alexinho]

I think we should tour the Netherlands for the Bong Ashes next Summer...

The Hashes

 

[jmcp]

Highly unlikely! You're not good enough.

I dunno, I'm part Irish and can hold a bat so I might even have a chance at beating them.

 

[Edmundo]

The Indian tour was fine this year as they were beating us

The first Test they escaped with a draw in a game that we were on top of. They won the second Test, which was close until one of those crazy sessions only England have and we won the Third Test to draw the series. I know quite a lot about that series as I was there for the second and third Tests.

I have always wanted to watch a test match in India and, last week, I was invited over with free flights accomodation, board and hospitality tickets etc in November 2008 by an Indian member of our club!

It's fantastic Spiderbee - I'm just hoping they play in Calcutta next time around. I'll definitely be there.

I would have no problem watching cricket in Pakistan and Sri Lanka either!

I'm looking at going to two or three of the Tests in Sri Lanka this November.

 

[NorthamptonBee]

The first Test they escaped with a draw in a game that we were on top of. They won the second Test, which was close until one of those crazy sessions only England have and we won the Third Test to draw the series. I know quite a lot about that series as I was there for the second and third Tests.

So they weren't losing then, thanks for the confirmation as when they lose they throw seats and stuff at players on the pitch.
Cricket is life and death in Asia and sadly this won't be the last cricket related death from that region.

 

[KD]

because the Pakistan cricket team lose a game.

There has always been a bad odour following this lot around but the cancer of cricket and indeed the Muslim ideal that seems to be kill if crossed has really come to town.

Escobar and Woolmer RIP as your deaths are both outrages.

Killed for losing a game!:sad: How the feck do his family carry on from here and does anyone else fancy that job?

Houses being burnt, Pakistani cricket shirts being burnt and don't come home as you have disgraced the nation being said! I know death to the infidels will solve this.

Should we continue to play sport against the third world where we always have problems?
Can we not concentrate on the tours (cricket) to OZ, NZ, WI and SA where the cricket is good and their gods are not likely to be offended by us?

The Indian tour was fine this year as they were beating us and the Pakistan team managed to stay on the pitch. Even the tour when we beat them they were trying all they could to get off for bad light as Thorpe was trying to win the series. Ball tampering, over zealous and embarrassing appeals and notes written on paper apologising to umpires are only a few of the problems over the years and if you add the crowd trouble that you get over there and at the Oval when the Pakistan team are in full swing then you have a horrible little problem. I hope Ahktar and his mate are that badly injured and that the drugs pass through their bodies before the next test.

Fundamentalism - a point of view characterised by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views.

Have a good weekend NB.

 

[Edmundo]

There's no denying that Indian cricket fans are excitable, but the only time they caused any trouble that I saw was when they were severely and repeatedly provoked by two drunken English idiots in Burberry baseball caps.

 

[NorthamptonBee]

Fundamentalism - a point of view characterised by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views.

Have a good weekend NB.

I'll do my best mate.

 

[NorthamptonBee]

There's no denying that Indian cricket fans are excitable, but the only time they caused any trouble that I saw was when they were severely and repeatedly provoked by two drunken English idiots in Burberry baseball caps.

Ed, that is pathetic.

From memory didn't the India v Sri Lanka semi final get stopped early as the Indians were starting to riot. I've heard of rain stopped play and bad light but not crowd before. Oh yeah there was a English bloke with his shirt off that started that one.

 

[Edmundo]

It certainly was pathetic, NB. Two drunken tw*ts in Chandigarh, winding up the Indian kids until they lost it, whereupon the police went in with their batons and thrashed ... the Indian kids. It was embarassing to be English. Luckily it was an isolated incident.

 

[The H]

By the way. Anyone up for Scotland v England 1 dayer June 2008???rofl

Last time I watched Scotland, their best bowler was a ecstasy-taking Asian bloke....

 

[Jimbee]

He got done for Ecstasy.

 

[KD]

Fundamentalism - a point of view characterised by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views.

Have a good weekend NB.

Sorry that didn't make a lot of sense. Might help if I didn't leave out whole sentences. Think I am just over tired.

I was trying to say that your responses to the extreme scenarios you describe seem quite extreme in themselves. I thought you were but the more I read the less certain I became.

 

[Jimbee]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/scotland/4076342.stm

 

[The H]

What I said !!

 

[KD]

Good job he took those drugs. Without the peace and love they generated there would have been riots, ball tampering, shirt burning and all sorts going on.

 

[The H]

that's the Scots for you.... Alex Salmond was drinking the bar dry... i'm sure it was his missus that fell over :suspect:

 

[West Ealing Bee]

The news of poison found in his body is the bit that intrigues me.

That suggests it has been set up for a while, if you're going to break someone's neck you don't poison them at the same time, that must have happened beforehand.

For the sake of the game, amore importantly for Woolmer's family, I hope they get to the bottom of this.

 

[robBEEh]

For the sake of the game, amore importantly for Woolmer's family, I hope they get to the bottom of this.

Hear hear to that - I saw an interview with his wife and one of his sons earlier and I was bewildered/impressed at the level of dignity that they are able to maintain at this time. I can only assume that the reality has yet to sink in.

The thought, for them, that he has been murdered doing his job (and presumably his utmost to succeed) must be like a living nightmare.

 

[Les Beeavinu]

I certainly don't subscribe to any view that lumps the entire sub-continent into the same basket. I do believe though that something in Pakistan is rotten and it wouldn't surprise me if this has got more to do with Pakistani cricket and their followers than any betting scandal.

 

[California Bee]

Last time I watched Scotland, their best bowler was a ecstasy-taking Asian bloke....

Should have been a wicket-taking Scotch drinker.

or.....a Scotch-taking wicked bowler

or....an ecstatic wicked Asian bloke from Scotland

or an Asian ecstatic in a bowler hat watching a bloke




I think it's time for me to go home from work!

 

[WisBee]

I would guess that 90% of us thought Leroy was an arse and that McLaren is a joke but would we want them dead?

.................I think they stand a pretty good chance this year in F1.............

 

[Nick Hester]

The news of poison found in his body is the bit that intrigues me.

That suggests it has been set up for a while, if you're going to break someone's neck you don't poison them at the same time, that must have happened beforehand.

For the sake of the game, amore importantly for Woolmer's family, I hope they get to the bottom of this.

I've been away for a few days on business and missed this 'poison' news?

I worked a couple of times with Bob Woolmer as he had a cricket shop in Kent and we used to do the 'trade cricket show' together eight or nine years back..

He was a lovely bloke - a real tragedy more so for his family wjho were devoted to him..

 

[NorthamptonBee]

The Indians are burning effigies in the streets and the police are guarding players' homes. Doni is chief target and long hair is being attached to the fake bodies. lol I wish the burberry boys wouldn't wind them up.

West Ham United fans hung a David Beckham guy after his sending off v the Argentinians which was pathetic but the sub-continent are the masters. An Indian reporter on the cricket on the beeb last night said they always burn houses and burn effigies and called it normal whenever they lose.

It's taken far too seriously.

 

[Willo]

When Rankin missed that sitter versus Hartlepool I burnt my pie in protest

 

[ChinaBee]

Some breaking news on Sky a while ago is that according to the Cricket board "no Pakistan cricketers are suspected of the murder."

Interesting that they felt the need to assure everyone of that.

From what I heard today this seems to be a smokescreen and they are number one suspects as they were had access to the rooms etc. I have been told that they cannot go back to Pakistan yet.
It is believed they threw the first game assuming they would win the next but it backfired on them

 

[Alex]

They have been told they can go home now

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6491761.stm

 

[hanworthbee]

I stayed at that particular hotel twice before, was horrible

 

[Alex]

Inzi and Mushtaq Ahmed are now under going further questioing.

 

[Salford Bee]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6492207.stm

 

[The H]

doubt Inzi could have done it... someone would have seen him run out...

 

[Edmundo]

I stayed at that particular hotel twice before, was horrible

Why did you stay there the second time then?

 

[The H]

he had orders to murder Bob Woolmer?

 

[Willo]

doubt Inzi could have done it... someone would have seen him run out...

lol

 

[Jam Jar]

So they weren't losing then, thanks for the confirmation as when they lose they throw seats and stuff at players on the pitch.
Cricket is life and death in Asia and sadly this won't be the last cricket related death from that region.

Like English football hooligans for example.

 

[hanworthbee]

Why did you stay there the second time then?

work used it

 

[Brentford Bob]

Like English football hooligans for example.

Be honest, when was the last time you saw anyone in England throw a seat at a player??

 

[Jam Jar]

Be honest, when was the last time you saw anyone in England throw a seat at a player??

Saw someone try and aim a punch at Frankie Lampard.

Face it all nations have their nutters, some more than others

 

[NorthamptonBee]

Face it all nations have their nutters, some more than others

Precisely and after an Indian family commited suicide over this WC disaster I think there are many more over there.
People shouldn't be dying over cricket results.:sad:

 

[SpiderBee]

Cricket has been banned in Pakistan and all cricketers are being encouraged to take up bobsleighing.

 

[Carri Bee Un]

Cricket has been banned in Pakistan and all cricketers are being encouraged to take up bobsleighing.

lol Very good.

 

[nocoat]

First nation to enter the World Cup and bring back the ashes

 

[Ronan]

rofl

 

[super_bees]

They're saying it wasn't even murder now

 

[Gee Bee]

They're saying it wasn't even murder now

Where have you read that? It's doesn't appear in any news reports.

 

[Stanley]

Where have you read that? It's doesn't appear in any news reports.

Its' been "said" in Pakistan....sort of denial of truth stuff..

 

[ChinaBee]

KINGSTON, Jamaica

Breaking News........

In what may be a major breakthrough, Jamaican police investigating the

murder of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer at the World Cup have today

released a picture of a man heard shouting "Woolmer!" whilst beating on

Woolmer's door.

Police hope with the release of the photo a member of the public may

recognise the suspect.













































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[WarrenBee]

KINGSTON, Jamaica

Breaking News........

In what may be a major breakthrough, Jamaican police investigating the

murder of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer at the World Cup have today

released a picture of a man heard shouting "Woolmer!" whilst beating on

Woolmer's door.

Police hope with the release of the photo a member of the public may

recognise the suspect.













































]]

Freddie did it??

 

[Loud and Proud]

Apparently the Pakistani cricket team have given up cricket and are now concentrating on Bob Slaying

 

[hanworthbee]

I reckon it wasnt murder at all, the coroner was probably doped up and balls'd it up

 

[West Ealing Bee]

I reckon it wasnt murder at all, the coroner was probably doped up and balls'd it up