I don’t know about you, but I’m still reeling from the events of the last twenty four hours. We witnessed a Paul Downton media appearance surreally juxtaposed with an England performance so dire it demonstrated the exact opposite of everything he said. This was the stuff of Comical Ali. This was the owner of the White Star Line still boasting about the Titanic’s unsinkability at the very moment survivors were scrambling aboard the Carpathia. This was a man arguing that black...
Spin and the Downton Downturn
Sometimes clever people make things far more complicated than they need to be. Here’s what Paul Downton, a highly intelligent and articulate man, should have said about Alastair Cook and the England cricket team on Monday: “I can understand the fans’ concerns. It’s not going to plan at the moment. Alastair hasn’t scored runs for an awful long time, the team is an awful slump, and we’re not improving enough … if at all” “We’ll be having a frank discussion about what we can do, at this late...
