Yeah, I think we all eventually learn that genuine hero-worship, particularly of people we don't know particularly well on a personal level, is not a good idea. However, that doesn't mean you can't admire certain qualities within specific people. If you admired Roebuck's writing, commentary, passion for cricket or anything else along those lines then none of this really changes any of that.This is proving to be pretty tough for some people. A lot of people respect/respected Peter Roebuck as a player and commentator. However with the various accusations now coming out against him, it's becoming clear there may be a lot to this man that we didn't know.
To be fair, this can be said about anyone famous or not.....but in general what do you do if someone you admire and respect is accucused or proved to have been involved in something very unsavoury....can you just stop admiring them??
Link doesn't work mate.
Apparently wasn't paid a fee.Sounds bad on the face of it, but the fella was speaking to The Sun, so he's almost certainly received a fee for his story.
Not that that means he's necessarily a liar and, if the alleged communications were posted on face book, I'd guess they could be retrieved to corroborate.
EDIT: Link worked for me, obvz.
Nice touch. Grandstand is going to be such a different experience without his voice. A true cricket nerd.Flashback tribute on Grandstand now.
Hope they upload it on the website.Flashback tribute on Grandstand now.
I don't buy any of that crape about him ***ually assaulting a young male. Easy way to malign someone after his death...give 10$ to any Zimbabwean Youth today and he will testify in a heart beat for anything you want him to. (No offence to any Zimbabwean, its true for a lot Pakistanis as well, this is what poverty does to you).
First someone reports he was found dead in his hotel room, than someone says jumped out the window and found dead 6 stories below the hotel room. He called for his friend, he wanted a lawyer, he called his 3 "sons" for character witness...than his friend says it takes like 5 seconds to open the window and he just jumped out, Yeah Right like his friend had opened that window and timed that **** .....
None of this baloney sounds credible to me. Even if its coming from a reputable news source. The real source of this B.S. is still the people involved....Newspapers are only publishing the reports they are getting.
Whatever the truth is, this is not it....and I don't expect it to come out easily either. Peter was certainly up to something...
Something rotten about sports match fixing: Peter Roebuck - Sport - DNA
Even though this is a month old article from him, but bits and pieces of this article reflected his opinion about how much he really "trusted" the games outcomes. According to him even the World Cup couldn't be entirely trusted.
I am not speculating anything but at the same time I am not going to trust any of these jack and jill stories....
This kind of generalising speculation about Zimbabweans is not welcome thank you, and I wouldn't be surprised if Zimbabwean members were very offended by this post. Don't do it again.I don't buy any of that crape about him ***ually assaulting a young male. Easy way to malign someone after his death...give 10$ to any Zimbabwean Youth today and he will testify in a heart beat for anything you want him to. (No offence to any Zimbabwean, its true for a lot Pakistanis as well, this is what poverty does to you).
First someone reports he was found dead in his hotel room, than someone says jumped out the window and found dead 6 stories below the hotel room. He called for his friend, he wanted a lawyer, he called his 3 "sons" for character witness...than his friend says it takes like 5 seconds to open the window and he just jumped out, Yeah Right like his friend had opened that window and timed that **** .....
None of this baloney sounds credible to me. Even if its coming from a reputable news source. The real source of this B.S. is still the people involved....Newspapers are only publishing the reports they are getting.
Whatever the truth is, this is not it....and I don't expect it to come out easily either. Peter was certainly up to something...
Something rotten about sports match fixing: Peter Roebuck - Sport - DNA
Even though this is a month old article from him, but bits and pieces of this article reflected his opinion about how much he really "trusted" the games outcomes. According to him even the World Cup couldn't be entirely trusted.
I am not speculating anything but at the same time I am not going to trust any of these jack and jill stories....