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[balbec]

Hard to drop Woakes in fairness

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Cicero_Dandi

I see some English cricket captain was acting the thug.

Cc @GeoffreyBoycott

Who?

[Cicero_Dandi]

Bill Stoker I think is his name.

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Cicero_Dandi

Bill Stoker I think is his name.

Never heard of him. In any case, Joe Root is the England cricket captain.

[Cicero_Dandi]

Are you aware of any English cricketer being on trial for assault?

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Cicero_Dandi

Are you aware of any English cricketer being on trial for assault?

Yes.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Jeff says he allegedly punched someone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5omsx2Cyan4

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Jeff says he attacked people for being homophobic

- YouTube

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy rushing to judgement again in criminal trial before all the evidence has been heard. He’s learned nothing for getting it so badly wrong in the Belfast Rape Trial, screeching like a snowflake from the outset for Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding to be convicted.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

do you think he punched someone Jeff?

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

do you think he punched someone Jeff?

bumped for jeff

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

do you think he punched someone Jeff?

Ben Stokes is charged with assault and affray. Self defence to include defence of another is one of the accepted legal defences to a charge of assault.

[Matty_Hislop]

Good luck to former Clontarf CC groundsman Karl McDermott in his quest to land the biggest job in the groundskeeping world.

[GeoffreyBoycott]

Is Garry Flood in the running for this? cc @Bandage?

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

ok, that’s a backtrack from your he allegedly punched someone

[Cicero_Dandi]

Are you questioning the integrity of the Crown Prosecution Service?

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

check mate

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

ok, that’s a backtrack from your he allegedly punched someone

That’s what the criminal process and the jury are there to decide whether he was acting lawfully when he punched the complainant. Are you any closer to clarifying these additional offences you were asserting that Ben Stokes was accused of on Saturday?

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Think he is accused of being homophobic

@GeoffreyBoycott

That’s news to me. Haven’t seen that reported anywhere. Maybe you could post up the specifics of this offence of homophobia, you’re alleging that Stokes has been charged with.

Stokes is charged with Affray contrary to Section 3(1) and (7) of the Public Order Act 1986 and Common Assault contrary to Section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988.

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Read the reports mate

@GeoffreyBoycott

I’ve been reading the courts reports every day. The ones that I have been reading state that Stokes has been charged with Affray contrary to Section 3(1) and (7) of the Public Order Act 1986 and Common Assault contrary to Section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988.

You’re claiming that he’s been charged with another offence that I haven’t seen mention of in any of the courts reports that I have read. Curious as to where you’ve come up with this information.

[Cicero_Dandi]

Sounds to me like you’re trying to undermine the Crown Prosecution Service, Geoff.

[GeoffreyBoycott]

@Cicero_Dandi

Sounds to me like you’re trying to undermine the Crown Prosecution Service, Geoff.

Why do you say that?