IIn 2009, 33 to 4 years before retiring from active competition, cyclist Chris Hoy wrote an article. "I’m angry to be a cyclist,” he said. Five years ago, already MBE, OBE, CBE, and still rowing rower Matthew Pinsent were equally respected. "I was shocked,” he said. "I wasn’t convinced I had enough to believe.” Both 29-year-old Andy Murray and 33-year-old Mor Farah both rowed on the 2017 New Year’s Honor List, Katherine Grainger, 41. Hepstein Jessica Ennis-Hill 30 became a dam. "This is a great honor,” Murray said. "I’m still competing and don’t want it to interfere with the court or affect my performance.”
This is not a problem that many cricketers must overcome. In the full history of the sport, British cricketers watched articles or built dams before Alastair Cook retired in 2018. The only British cricket knight awarded to his thirties athletes. Of the 15 cricket knights, 10 were more than 60, as were the 40s, as were many in their 80s (2). Two of the 15 died in the year after the Knights. The average age of cricket-related English knights, over the last few years, a number that has fallen significantly in exchange for Cook and 42-year-old Andrew Strauss, is over 65. Sports achievements, why aren’t the achievements still memorable? Why wait so long?
Recently, someone sent a knight to the prime minister’s favorite cricketer who left, and many were angry about it. In 1998, after Jeffrey Boycott was convicted of domestic violence in France, the Guardian published an article saying that it should not be the end of the ruling that he was sentenced to an honest sentence of a former cricketer. He was rejected by domestic games for a while, but over time he returned to mainstream broadcasting and gained another reputation or another reputation with new viewers.
Feeling that his prime minister was a pleasant metaphor for his prime minister in May, he called him his prime minister during his time. When she asked in November how many wickets fell in the cabinet before walking, she immediately told her about Yorkshire Man. “And what do you know about Jeffrey Boycott? Geoffrey Boycott adhered to this. And he got away last time. ”Last year she praised him in a BBC interview because“ he had a plan, he had a plan, and because he did not deliver it more often. The boycott wrote articles for the service of the inherently convenient Brexit-related metaphors, and therefore joins the ranks of the cricket knights but not the cricket knights, in fact, joining those who have been honored to write about it without participating in the game. Has been appointed, or managed or been a branch of Bengal.
In areas other than private events, especially in areas excluded from the convenient quadruple athletes who are Olympics, the allocation of honor is obviously difficult. The accumulation of the main trophies inevitably attracts attention, but the idea that an outstanding player in team sports is more respectable because they play simultaneously with other good players who can win a specific trophy at the same time is absurd. . Throughout his club career, Sir Jeff Hearst, who failed to win one FA Cup and league title, became the fourth and most inexplicably fourth footballer. In late 1999, the magazine World Soccer released a list of the best football players of all time, including 23 British. They all had a big impact on one of the world’s most important sports, and all had a greater impact on both their fields and British society than on politicians or diplomats. Three of them wrote articles (followed by another Kenny Dalglish). This is not justified, especially given the honors sown in individual sports.
When Len Hutton wrote an article in 1956, Australian spinner Arthur Mailey famously said: knighthood? Four years later, he is finally at bat, but still remains the only British professional bowler in history. Jack Hobbs wants to reject the article he received at Queen’s coronation, but was not convinced by Sir Walter Monckton, Surrey’s chairman and conservative minister of Winston Churchill. Hobbes wrote to Herbert Sutcliffe:
There seems to be two possible solutions to all of this. One concluded that the entire British honor system was completely indifferent, unable to compensate for the excellence of team sports in the whole history, and decided not to be disturbed by it. The other is to make a decision that a sportsman should not be honored simply by getting things. All you need is a trophy, a medal and a tribute to the public. If, after retirement, players continue for good managers, tireless fundraising events, politician friends or nominee for Bengal governors, they can be honored. Leave it in the meantime.
But the key to the problem is this. Sports do not need complex and unreliable systems to identify and reward individuals who excel in the academic field. to be one.
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