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Graves
Feb 29, 2024 10:15:58 GMT
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Post by karma on Feb 29, 2024 10:15:58 GMT
Birthday today.
Sir Dave Brailsford, co-founder and former team principal of Grenadiers(cycling team, formerly Team Sky/Ineos), national performance director, British Cycling (2007- 14)
Born 29th February 1964
Happy 15th birthday 🎂
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Graves
Feb 29, 2024 10:25:18 GMT
Post by slowleftarmer on Feb 29, 2024 10:25:18 GMT
and now involved at Manchester United of course
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Graves
Feb 29, 2024 10:28:53 GMT
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Post by karma on Feb 29, 2024 10:28:53 GMT
I wondered how his background could be useful at Manchester United but I suppose when it's time for a change of manager, he could be entrusted to impart the bad news " On yer bike, Ten Hag" 🚲
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Post by davemorton on Feb 29, 2024 10:36:57 GMT
I knew a girl, Vivienne, wife of a friend, who was born 29/2/1948, which makes her 19, now, if she still lives. I remember her 6th birthday. She was pregnant! I sent her a card which said, "I'm six years old and getting big."
All these people who cross our path for a while, then disappear...who knows where? They were my best friends, Frank & Viv, and I've probably not even thought of them for 30 years, until this coincidence of a date.
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Graves
Mar 1, 2024 12:20:54 GMT
Post by karma on Mar 1, 2024 12:20:54 GMT
I witnessed the Select Committee's grilling of Colin Graves particularly with reference to apologising to Rafiq. NOT 'Have you apologised to Rafiq ?' but 'Have you phoned Rafiq to apologise?' The Scottish MP who asked the question knew the answer because he had been phoning Rafiq himself, getting ammunition, including the fact that allegedly someone had attacked his parent house (nothing to do with YCCC)
I've been reading Huw Turbervill's interview with Colin Graves, published in the March Cricketer and one question and answer went as follows:
"Have you ever apologised to Rafiq, or met him in person?"
"No I haven't, because basically - again this is where a lot of people don't understand the situation - Azeem Rafiq lodged his complaint to Yorkshire in November 2020. I had left the ECB in September, so (it was) four weeks after. In all the reports that have been issued either by the Cricket Discipline Commission or Squire Patton Boggs, my name has not been mentioned by any of them because the majority of complaints that refer to racist comments and situations that he unfortunately experienced were after 2015 (when Graves left YCCC). I think there were only one or two that were before. So I was out of cricket, I didn't see a situation where it was appropriate to even try to get involved because I was not even part of the enquiry with anybody, and my name wasn't mentioned by anybody."
Comment : I agree with Graves' carefully worded reply, though if he wanted to he could have apologised personally in addition to his earlier apology to everybody. However when Rafiq was canvassing against Graves return to Yorkshire and actively trying to persuade sponsors to withdraw from YCCC , why would he want to, I wouldn't?
It was a good wide-ranging interview but not with loaded accusatorial questions like the Select Committee ones from snake-oil salesmen.
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