The England men’s cricket MD offered a postmortem that didn’t address the nuts and bolts of the system he manages
“It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever.” David St Hubbins, lead vocalist, Spinal Tap.
“There’s a real difference between aggressive and dumb.” Rob Key, managing director, England cricket.
Listening to Rob Key deliver the latest four‑yearly Ashes autopsy deep in the grey concrete underworld of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, it was tempting at first to conclude that what we have here is a basic category mistake.
A pundit is punditing his own mistakes. A fluent, interesting broadcaster is offering fluent, interesting observations about the collapse of an England tour that he, the fluent, interesting broadcaster, oversaw. And concluding, you know what, I probably did OK in the end.
