Andrew Flintoff's "update" to his autobiography has left Wickman Junior in a state of bemusement. Firstly, just going off the bit for a sec...Wickman Junior loves the fact that sports people (usually) can just add to their autobiographies as they go along. That David Beckham has about six means that we can probably expect more from Freddie in future. I can see him now penning chapters about his time for the New South Wales Blues one-day side, appearing in the Hong Kong Super 8s, and about how difficult it was to tell his kids about the "corridor of uncertainty"....but I digress.
Speaking about the 2006-07 Ashes tour, Flintoff said: "I found myself questioning my own ability and I was questioning the team", and also, "It didn't matter we were losing heavily, it didn't matter that the team seemed to be breaking into factions and it didn't matter that I was finding it hard to hold them together."
Wickman Junior is wondering what sort of questions Freddie was asking the team, but surely one of the questions he must have asked was: "boys, why aren't we winning? or why are we playing badly? Unlike Flintoff, Wickman Junior doesn't see these questions as bad, which he seems to be implying. But rather, surely if a team is losing, it is only right to ask why, and to "question" the team? But then it gets even more confusing. Freddie says that "it didn't matter that we were losing heavily". Hang on. So the questions weren't probably even related to how the team was performing? This is bizarre indeed. So just what was he asking? "Where can I get a good burger?" Wickman Junior is unsure, but clearly whatever it was confused the team.
Secondly, this "factions" business seems to be rearing its head again. Wickman Junior doesn't understand this. Was there a left-handed faction? A select band of guys who didn't drink? Maybe people who liked wearing high pants? If this was the case, it's not surprising Freddie was finding it difficult to hold the players together. Perhaps they should have been focusing on cricket, and that, SURELY, has to come from the top. Maybe if Freddie had questionned his team a little more, the factions would surely have come together....
More questions than answers....but let's look forward to the next installment
(attached picture: prizes given to who can guess which faction KP is in)
Wickman Junior
Hampton Wick Royal Cricket Club * 1863 - 2013 * 150 Glorious Seasons
Tuesday 22 September 2009
Ashes turned to Booze cruise?
Andrew Flintoff's "update" to his autobiography has left Wickman Junior in a state of bemusement. Firstly, just going off the bit for a sec...Wickman Junior loves the fact that sports people (usually) can just add to their autobiographies as they go along. That David Beckham has about six means that we can probably expect more from Freddie in future. I can see him now penning chapters about his time for the New South Wales Blues one-day side, appearing in the Hong Kong Super 8s, and about how difficult it was to tell his kids about the "corridor of uncertainty"....but I digress.
Speaking about the 2006-07 Ashes tour, Flintoff said: "I found myself questioning my own ability and I was questioning the team", and also, "It didn't matter we were losing heavily, it didn't matter that the team seemed to be breaking into factions and it didn't matter that I was finding it hard to hold them together."
Wickman Junior is wondering what sort of questions Freddie was asking the team, but surely one of the questions he must have asked was: "boys, why aren't we winning? or why are we playing badly? Unlike Flintoff, Wickman Junior doesn't see these questions as bad, which he seems to be implying. But rather, surely if a team is losing, it is only right to ask why, and to "question" the team? But then it gets even more confusing. Freddie says that "it didn't matter that we were losing heavily". Hang on. So the questions weren't probably even related to how the team was performing? This is bizarre indeed. So just what was he asking? "Where can I get a good burger?" Wickman Junior is unsure, but clearly whatever it was confused the team.
Secondly, this "factions" business seems to be rearing its head again. Wickman Junior doesn't understand this. Was there a left-handed faction? A select band of guys who didn't drink? Maybe people who liked wearing high pants? If this was the case, it's not surprising Freddie was finding it difficult to hold the players together. Perhaps they should have been focusing on cricket, and that, SURELY, has to come from the top. Maybe if Freddie had questionned his team a little more, the factions would surely have come together....
More questions than answers....but let's look forward to the next installment
(attached picture: prizes given to who can guess which faction KP is in)
Wickman Junior
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