OK So he got pished, Some people seem to forget that without him we would never had won the ashes, seems some people have short memories, talk about go from hero to zero:wonder: I like Freddie and I do think the punishment was too harsh.
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Colin

Not disputing the chaps ability but for me I think he is overated and everyone seems to forget there are another 10 batsman and 5 odd bowlers in the team, not to mention the numerous other fielders, all the pundits seem to blow his trmpet as though he is the best and only player in the team. In my opinion he did nothing for us in the 2006 ashes and has also not done anything special in the current World Cup.
For me Panasar and Dalrymple seem to be the golden boys at the moment.

Anyway back to the initial question! possibly a tad harsh but lets not forget that he is currently representing our country and to go out and get blasted then need rescuing from a capsised pedelo, is not the sort of behaviour you would expect.

Just my opinion.

yeah he woz treated harshly coz the whole england team should be sacked, their all sh1te and only flintoff is good and panesar and that bowling maestro i forgot his name

Flintoff is a complete piss head. During the ashes he was lashing it up big time 2 days before games with him and Pieterson so drunk they could hardly stand up. The fact is he has become a lager lout and despite repeated warning from team managment has refused to tone it down before games this punishment is long overdue.

I can't see what all the fuss is about, so, AFTER the game had finished, he went out on the lash, and made a prick of himself, so what.... if it had happened mid way through the games then fair enough, but afterwards..... he's just having a few drinks and getting lashed..... yeh, i suppose you could argue that he 's representing britain, but then you could say that about so many people who don't give a toss....

BTW, i don't follow cricket, or any other sport come to that.... just can't help hearing the news....

I thought it was the night before a game, but just read otherwise on t'internet. Either way, shouldn't really be getting THAT drunk in the middle of a world cup tournament!! :nono:

If it had been a premiership football player he would have been fined 100k and been splashed all over the papers which woudl have been baying for blood.

He is a proffesional who needs (to a degree) curb his drinking - he is a regular boozer and i'm sorry but you cant do this at this sort of level.

he needs to knock this s*** on the head and stop acting like an 18 year old.

Plenty of time to booze when he retires when sat on millions

Chav twat IMHO

fair punishment that will be soon forgotten.

I dread to think of the national uproar though had it been Rooney who'd done it.

Not a harsh punisment at all!

He is an international sportsman representing the country and behaing like that in a tournament is a total disgrace!

Think players forget what an honour it is to put on an england shirt and represent their country!

Behaving like that never fit to be captain as it would be his responsibility to keep all the others in line.

Neilski 8)

He got banned for 1 game, and against who? the mighty Canada

They didn't have the balls to send him home in disgrace, but then again if they'd sent home everyone that was on the lash that night - we wouldn't be able to field a team :D

The punishment is not harsh enough. Your vice captain of your country and you go and do something like that??? Not professional one bit and a sh!t example to kids.

As a professional sportsman myself i find it unbelieveble:(

Why do we want to try rip somebody to shreds every time they do something a bit wrong?

How many of you here shouting your mouths off have gone into work the next day with a stinking hangover?

It's cricket at the end of the day. Hardly a majorly physical sport. Christ the best bowler ever is some fat Aussie bloke.

Yeas, he was harshly treated.

However, it's only cricket ! :D

Nope,deserved it.Can't he avoid the pop just for a short while.Maybe go on the lash if they win something?

Beer and cricket is for my level of play.30 and 40 yr old crocks.Game of cricket then off to the pub.Not for International players in a tournament

Why do we want to try rip somebody to shreds every time they do something a bit wrong?

How many of you here shouting your mouths off have gone into work the next day with a stinking hangover?

It's cricket at the end of the day. Hardly a majorly physical sport. Christ the best bowler ever is some fat Aussie bloke.


Q1 Because he is a proffesional sportsman/athlete who represents England at the highest level and should adjust his drinking to suit - by all means have a drink but dont be an out and out p*** pot and i'm afraid he is heading that way.

Q2 when i was 18 yes but then i was packing chicken legs back then not representing the national squad.

Ok maybe not as physical as Football etc. but large alchohol consumption would be detrimental in his performance for the team and he knows it
In this day and age its not acceptable - he gets paid a s**t load i would imagine - i'm sure he could lay off the sauce a bit.

yeah he woz treated harshly coz the whole england team should be sacked, their all sh1te and only flintoff is good and panesar and that bowling maestro i forgot his name


And how is the Scotland cricket team getting on these days? ;)

Whooaaahh - looks like the mods have woke up:)

Not too harsh a punishment. He should have been sent home in disgrace and not allowed to play for his country again...
I appreciate that cricket isnt a sport, but never the less this kind of behaviour when representing your country in a competition that the world is watching is a poor show...

A Botham wannabe.
Flintoff may well be to act the fool off field but he rarely delivers the Botham act on field.
Perhaps this recent action will concentrate his mind a little more on improving at cricket.

Plus it can't be healthy in that heat to be playing with a hangover, they will dehydrate quick enough without being out on the sauce the night before.

Jeeze, leave the guy alone. What a bunch of pompus crap.

When he can't chuck the ball properly then kick him off the team, you'd think he'd capsized the Titanic by the way you lot are going on.

He is there to do a job and represent his country. The fact they had just lost a match there is no way he should have been out celebrating at all, let alone until 4am with another match coming up soon. The players are treating it as usual far too much like a holiday and not like doing a professional job to which they are being paid a lot of money to do.

As for the comment about who here has never gone into work with a stinking hangover, thats irrelevant. The bloke is representing his country and a role model for kids and as vice captain of the team should be setting a very high example of standards. And the fact is if I was found by my manager at 4am in the morning p!ssed out of my nut and needed rescuing from an overturned pedelo when something had just gone badly wrong at work the previous day and had to work very hard to pull the team round then I know i'd be getting at least a very severe warning if not sacked so he got off too lightly in my opinion.

As for the idiot on this thread calling him a chav I think you need to look a little closer as to what defines a chav because he certainly isn't one, too many people on this board call anyone they don't like a chav :rolleyes:

No, not at all, he deserved all he got, let's hope the remorse sticks, the fact is he was warned 3 times about his antics in Australia. Lets be fair to those that comment he won us the Ashes, he was a member of a team that won the Ashes Freddie didn't do it on his own, and for me he has been celebrating this ever since because he has not had a decent knock with the bat since 2005, he's grabbed a few wickets but the consistency in his play has been woeful.

Poor old Freddie. To be honest I think what he did had a certain level of class to it. Just like Olly Reed and James Hunt, when Freddie gets pished he does a really good job of it and it's always colourful! :thumb:

Anyway, anybody that thinks Blair is a "nob" and is willing to go on the record and say it is OK in my book! ;)

It's a good thing he's a real person and not your average spineless dullard in the media :thumb:

Capsizing a peddle-o whilst drunk at night is not a tarnish on this countries reputation, it's a good night out and good on him.

There's far too much of this do gooder BS floating about. Probably the same people who think 5 pints is binge drinking and vote for Blair.

got off easy as said above if he was a footballer he would have been all over the front of the papers

It's a good thing he's a real person and not your average spineless dullard in the media :thumb:

Capsizing a peddle-o whilst drunk at night is not a tarnish on this countries reputation, it's a good night out and good on him.

There's far too much of this do gooder BS floating about. Probably the same people who think 5 pints is binge drinking and vote for Blair.

I don't think its a do-gooder mentality that's at work here. Fine, have a good time and a laugh with the lads but Freddie has been going off the deep end for a while now and hopefully this will be a wake up call for him. His job depends on his physical and mental fitness so going off and getting blatted isn't going to help.

Put it this way. If I was to turn up at work repeatedly with a hangover and it affected my ability to work I'd expect some form of disciplinary so why should he be any different? As Funkii Munkii said, its not the first time he's been warned.

Some of you have no idea what it is to be a PROFESSIONAL sportsman:rolleyes:

I don't see why you should have to be 'holier than thou' just because you're in the public eye. If he wasn't the best person for his position he'd be off the team, no warnings and no matter if he was a skag head or a complete teetotaller.

Is this some sort of jealousy thing? He's doing what people would love to do so they feel the need to bring him down vindictively at any opportunity they get?