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CCC STAR IN NIGHTCLUB FRACAS
By Richard Littlejohn
So a CCC player has been involved in a nightclub fracas. The teenager is alleged to have indulged in a DRINKING binge before ABUSING a doorman who attempted to evict him from the club and ASSAULTING a policeman on the street outside. He was then locked up in a police cell for the night.
DRIVING OFFENCES
The same player is alleged to have written off half a dozen cars in the 12 months since passing his test. The red haired batsman/wicketkeeper, who cannot be named for legal reasons now faces being grounded by his father Gerald Tomlinson.
LITANY OF CRIMES
Today we ask: ARE OUR YOUNG CRICKETERS OUT OF CONTROL YOBS? Young men rewarded for their talents, flush with vast incomes, models draped off both arms, fast sports cars and cocaine binges in the toilets at the Chillingham Arms... But have they lost their sense of perspective?
Certainly CCC appear to be the bad boys of the North East Midweek Cricket League with a history of crimes and misdemeanours stretching back years:
1955 Roger French was cuffed round the ear for SCRUMPING a neighbour’s apples. Scrumping was still a capital offence at the time, but luckily French’s age saved him from the noose;
1962 Cliff Spencer alleged to have STOLEN 4 Black Jacks and a sherbet dip from Clough’s sweet shop, Heaton Road;
1970 Gerald M. Tomlinson convicted of non-possession of DRUGS at the Isle of Wight Festival;
1982 Christopher Arbuthnott Knowles arrested for URINATING on his own trousers after a Clash concert (we all remember the Hull Echo 'The Slash!' headlines);
1995 Simon Woodman alleged to have EATEN a goldfish at a 6th form party;
2001 Derek Marshall convicted of SPEAKING HIS MIND once too often during a cricket fixture at Heaton;
Though I have some sympathy with Marshall, the record is a disgrace to all concerned with the game. Cricket must CLEAN UP ITS ACT. The latest miscreant must be punished adequately, though no doubt the liberal do-gooders will give him a new car, an Icons membership card and a holiday in Faliraki. YOU COULD NOT MAKE IT UP!
Be Chilled!
Richard
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