Bob Woolmer has died

[planeterotica]

crofter wrote:

> Fuck me seems he has been murdered, strangled!!
> Looks like he was about to blow the whistle on some major
> gambling gang after all.
>
> Mr. Rasputin you are the prime suspect in my book!!

planeterotica wrote:

Yes you must come clean Keith and put your hands up to this one, and all those unfavourable comments you have made on this thread about Bob Woolmer will be used against you as evidence, and lets hope your alibi stands up to scrutiny.

[colonel]

Keith Rasputin- were you in Jamaica last weekend????

[Snowy]

THE whole thing is like something macabre out of a daft 'Midsomer Murders' plot. Sadly, though, it's all too true.
'R A Woolmer' was one of the first names I knew as I became aware of cricket in the mid-70s along with 'A P E Knott', 'A W Greig', D L Underwood, 'R G D Willis' and one of my personal favourites 'D W Randall'.
It's just so bizarre but I'm absolutely convinced that money and a betting scandal are at the crux of Bob's dreadful demise.
Whether the World Cup should continue is open to argument. I see South African star Allan Donald reckons it should be abandoned while others say "Bob would have wanted it to carry on" (like they know, but then they always claim that!).
Whatever happens, the tournament as a whole will be tainted by his horrific death and will always be remembered by this event.
R.I.P. Bob - may your killers be brought to justice!

[planeterotica]

When i look back and remember Bob Woolmer when he started his career playing for Kent back in the 70s when cricket was more of a sedate and gentlemans game than it is now it does make you wonder where the game is heading if as reported Bob was murdered because of his beliefs in holding to the values of cricket, in fact what does the future hold for any sport when so much money can be made on the betting markets by anyone willing to throw a match or race it does make you wonder if real sports still exist.

[waffster]

for ultimately being responsible for Bob Woolmers murder.

I do not mean that they killed him, but they more than anyone else are responsible for the "result is everything" culture that has overtaken cricket and similarly rugby union in the last twenty years.

Having played both sports regularly in my youth I learned from the senior players around me that it was more about meeting and competing against different people from differing backgrounds, and making friends. Playing well was recognised; stories were told, around the bar post-match, of someone from somewhere who did something, sometime before, during or after a game, and that was what was remembered - not the result. I agree with Kiplings sentiments from his poem"IF" about winning and losing being imposters.

Sadly with the injection of Sky TVs money into both sports they have created monsters. Now any club that wants to be recognised by the sports ruling bodies have to belong to a league structure with promotion & relegation where winning and losing are vastly more important than playing well and making new friends. The more success you have, the further you have to travel, the higher the stakes, the less time and inclination for socialising.

You no longer see the willing volunteers at clubs that always used to help behind the scenes, preparing grounds, marking lines, making teas, umpiring and the like. It all used the be part of the social fabric of most clubs and they all used to benefit from it in other ways. I remember the first club I ever played for where the the man who did most of the ground preparation, giving up 2 or 3 evenings a week to do so, was one of the most useless cricketers you could ever wish to meet. It was never even thought, let alone suggested, that he should not be selected in favour of a more talented but less involved player. What's more he was a valued and respected member of the club, whatever his ability.
It just doesn't happen any more.

Frankly the fun and the main reasons why anyone wants to start playing have gone, I fear, for good. It saddens me deeply.

If the authorities ever catch the perpetrator(s) of this callous murder, I suspect that they will find it was done by some ignorant fanatical pakistani who couldn't cope with his sides loss and ejection from the tournament at the hands of the irish minnows, and had to take his retribution on the foreign coach. Think of it as some sick twisted kind of "honour killing" that happens all too frequently from that part of the world. Remember the outrage last summer when their "honour" was questioned during the Daryl Hare ball-tampering episode (just before their bowlers were banned for being drugs-cheats).

I'm stopping there. The more I think about it, the more depressed I get.

"There's more to life than cricket, and theres more to cricket than runs & wickets".

[Sam Slater]

[quote]why would you need to poison him if you were going to strangle him unless it was a female?[/quote]

So he couldn't fight back? Do you know how hard it would be to strangle a fully grown male to death without him giving you a few punches, kneeing you in the balls, or poking your eyes out? Even from behind it would be difficult. I doubt many females would have the strength to break a bone in his neck, unless she was some Russian shot-putting champion. !wink!

I don't think it was a female assasin. A female kills by stabbing you in the back, or creeping up on you and smacking you over the noggin with a heavy object. That's one scary woman that goes around strangling fully grown men !laugh!

[Pervert]

Where are Jessica Fletcher and Dr Mark Sloan when you need them?

!sherlock!