July 4, 2023
Dear Editor,
The usually very staid English Lord’s Cricket Ground-based Marylebone Cricket Club’s disgracefully-behaved members’ abuse and possible jostling of our Aussie cricketers for allegedly cheating by trashing the “spirit of the game” is somewhat “tit for tat” for mercurial Aussie tennis player Nick Kyrgios’s shameful, disgusting spitting towards, and verbal abuse of, tennis spectators along with uttering profanities…even in the presence of so very young royalty, and without a doubt contract-breaking the All England Tennis Club’s rules by wearing red-coloured apparel when collecting his 2022 Wimbledon “Gentlemen’s Singles” runner-up’s prize money of $1,550,000.
There’s one major difference, though: the MCC suspended some disgracefully-behaved offenders and sincerely apologised to the Aussie cricketers. However, the stodgy All England Tennis Club has never suspended Kyrgios from playing at Wimbledon, nor has the so-foul-mouthed, disgusting spitter Kyrgios ever apologised!
Yours,
Howard Hutchins
Victoria, Australia