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[jay_mcfc]

From reading what i have in the past & listening to folk i'm pretty sure K.P was givin instructions via text to dale steyn on how to get Strauss out
And on that basis alone he's an utter fuckin c**t & thats without the other shit he's got upto.........

Oh & so are the ECB & members of the england squad if indeed it is all true what he's saying,which is debatable.....

Again, absolute lies. Even Strauss is certain they are lies. As KP said himself, SA were/are the best bowling unit in the world who have endless amount of film on all players around the world. Other players had already been bowling around the wicket at Strauss with success, so why the hell would they need KP to tell them what to do?

This is exactly the reason why KP is absolutely right to release a book. His character has been persecuted in public for so long that the general public believe everything they read about him, or at the very least they lazily say 'well, not everyone can be wrong'. I think it's pretty obvious there has been a long smear campaign against KP and the ECB especially have tried to tarnish his reputation before his book come out. Unfortunately for them it looks to have backfired big time and they have been made to look very silly so far and it seems will only get worse.

 

[M18CTID]

To be honest, and I'm just talking generally rather than from a pro or anti-KP angle, after hearing everything that's gone on I'm not in the least bit surprised that we got stuffed 5-0 by Australia last winter. In fact, I'm astonished how we managed to win so many tests prior to that given the amount of disharmony that was seemingly kicking around the England dressing room.

 

[Citizen in Pakistan]

kp aint no angel but to discard him like that was one of the biggest blunders ecb could have ever done,worldcup in aus/nz would have been englands best chance of winning it after 92

 

[jay_mcfc]

To be honest, and I'm just talking generally rather than from a pro or anti-KP angle, after hearing everything that's gone on I'm not in the least bit surprised that we got stuffed 5-0 by Australia last winter. In fact, I'm astonished how we managed to win so many tests prior to that given the amount of disharmony that was seemingly kicking around the England dressing room.

Easy when you're winning. These things only show up when losing.

 

[without a dream]

It seems like I'm the only one who thinks the parody account was actually pretty funny. KP retweeted it several times too, obviously when KP decided it wasn't funny anymore then action should have been taken but then again to quote him maybe he should 'get a thicker skin'.

 

[jay_mcfc]

It seems like I'm the only one who thinks the parody account was actually pretty funny. KP retweeted it several times too, obviously when KP decided it wasn't funny anymore then action should have been taken but then again to quote him maybe he should 'get a thicker skin'.

I think it was more when he realised/found out that the author was a friend of Broad's and he was very obviously getting information from within the dressing room. Then he found out Bresnan, Swann and Broad all had access to the account on their phones, so I presume that was the tipping point and quite rightly that is crossing the line.

 

[bernabias home shirt]

It seems like I'm the only one who thinks the parody account was actually pretty funny. KP retweeted it several times too, obviously when KP decided it wasn't funny anymore then action should have been taken but then again to quote him maybe he should 'get a thicker skin'.

Quite a few thought it was funny
When i listened to him the other day saying it left him destroyed and a total wreck,i thought WOW.....

 

[Lancet Fluke]

It seems like I'm the only one who thinks the parody account was actually pretty funny. KP retweeted it several times too, obviously when KP decided it wasn't funny anymore then action should have been taken but then again to quote him maybe he should 'get a thicker skin'.

I think it was more when he realised/found out that the author was a friend of Broad's and he was very obviously getting information from within the dressing room. Then he found out Bresnan, Swann and Broad all had access to the account on their phones, so I presume that was the tipping point and quite rightly that is crossing the line.

Correct. Bob Willis was making the point yesterday about how James Milner laughs off his parody account. I wonder how funny he'd find it if he discovered it was team mates at City doing it and sniggereing behind his back. Who knows, he might still not care or he might be really bothered by it. I think it is understandable that it can be perceived as being a personal slight if it was done by team mates in a way it certainly wouldn't be if it was just done by some anonymous member of the public who doesn't know Pietersen.

 

[jay_mcfc]

It seems like I'm the only one who thinks the parody account was actually pretty funny. KP retweeted it several times too, obviously when KP decided it wasn't funny anymore then action should have been taken but then again to quote him maybe he should 'get a thicker skin'.

I think it was more when he realised/found out that the author was a friend of Broad's and he was very obviously getting information from within the dressing room. Then he found out Bresnan, Swann and Broad all had access to the account on their phones, so I presume that was the tipping point and quite rightly that is crossing the line.

Correct. Bob Willis was making the point yesterday about how James Milner laughs off his parody account. I wonder how funny he'd find it if he discovered it was team mates at City doing it and sniggereing behind his back. Who knows, he might still not care or he might be really bothered by it. I think it is understandable that it can be perceived as being a personal slight if it was done by team mates in a way it certainly wouldn't be if it was just done by some anonymous member of the public who doesn't know Pietersen.

You also have to consider his relationship with the people who did it at the time and their general behaviour around the dressing room. Anyway, I'm reading the book at the moment and all very interesting.

 

[DelToro]

It seems like I'm the only one who thinks the parody account was actually pretty funny. KP retweeted it several times too, obviously when KP decided it wasn't funny anymore then action should have been taken but then again to quote him maybe he should 'get a thicker skin'.

I think it was more when he realised/found out that the author was a friend of Broad's and he was very obviously getting information from within the dressing room. Then he found out Bresnan, Swann and Broad all had access to the account on their phones, so I presume that was the tipping point and quite rightly that is crossing the line.

I had understood that none of the players contributed to the account and that all the information in the tweets was in the public domain anyway.