Muddyfunkster: A Word to the Unwise

I hate when sport infringes on politics or (more likely) politics infringes on sport. There’s been a lot of it recently, with the racism in Spain and now the cricket tour to Zimbabwe. Oddly, both are connected – Spain being white’s taunting blacks, Zimbabwe being blacks persecuting whites. Both should be boycotted. England should have walked off the pitch, any team should walk off the pitch when rivalry turns to racism. Otherwise the perpetrators have no reason to stop. England should not go to Zimbabwe when ex-pats are being killed and maimed over land rights in an undemocratic society.

However, my original point was that governments shouldn’t get involved. Politicians in the UK were fighting over each other to take the moral high ground over the Spain incident – it’s a matter or the sport’s governing body, not the politicians who want to score points off it. That said, cricket’s governing bodies (the ICC and ECB) have shown themselves to be both spineless and toothless over the Zimbabwe tour – despite all of the journalists being allowed access to the country.