Originally Posted by
Jimmy Floyd
I say this as someone who has stood in their offices (the fact that they have offices is a fucking giveaway to begin with), but it's just all wrong and far too earnest. England cricket is not something to be supported like that, trying to make it about you. They basically trail around the world, lording it over mostly poorer countries that we once colonised, and expecting them to love our cringeworthy banter.
To support English cricket properly you have to be a moaning, cynical fuck who basically hates them. The team doesn't exist to be loved. Every time that Billy the trumpeter (I've met him as well, fml) comes on those Sky retrospective things wide-eyed saying 'Oh, mate, the Aussies, they were hating it, and then Freddie and Stokesy did this, and then Jimmy bowled him out' I just think for goodness sake, you're getting cricket wrong.