Boycott gets manhandled at the 1973 Eng v WI Lords test

[cricmahanty]

Gotta love the ol' days!

[jimmypince]

The Windies fans had been pissing Boyck's off all match, hence him trying to smash the last ball of the day probaly hoping to catch one of them in the head , they kept running on to the pitch between wickets, i even seen one daft cnut in this match run on to the wicket with a bottle of orange juice and poured it into a plastic cup and offered it to a windies player. Unbelivable. that guy at 1.16 had been an arsehole all day and geoff wasn't gonna stand for any of his bullshit.

[stretchmorgan]

Nobody fucks with Boycott!

[jwgeezer]

Imagine that happening nowadays!

[junkman19571]

useless fucking police force........

[mistersmith6000]

Why were they giving it to Boycott physically like that? Did he do something during the innings?

I know he's Boycott and that means he's gonna cop flak, but really, it looked like something was really happening, or rather, had happened so that these guys went mental. By the way, that's Keith Boyce bowling?

[Sweenzer]

The police look bothered about it

[cupidvogel]

You can't call this manhandling. It was a simple hook which Boycott didn't get right, and was caught at midwicket. If being out caught is manhandling, then Sachin, Steve Waugh, Ponting, Kallis, Dravid are the most manhandled batsmen in the world!

[007hor]

@cupidvogel if you watch at 1:03, you can see Boycott get shoved by a Windies fan. I believe that is what this video is highlighting rather than Geoff's fluffed hookshot.

[cupidvogel]

@007hor Oh! Sorry then. But still it is difficult to call it manhandling. Mob crowds stormed into the ground virtually after every match those days, and with so many men in so small a space, often some players would get pushed. How can one call it manhandling?

[007hor]

@cupidvogel, I agree, mobs would storm the field regularly back then. But manhandling, by defination, means to roughly move someone or something with man power alone. Which is precisely what happenend here.

[oshawaxpress]

@cupidvogel - get your eyes tested- this isn't Tendulkar-worship, its Windies fans going out of their way to shove Boycott, who is the player in question.

[supportme123]

Boycs gave as good as he got - good on him!

[steve1mufc]

Diversity works.

[nphanlon1973]

dont miss the fuckwits invading the field.hey,im so useless i have to invade a cricket pitch to get attention.!!!police did an outstanding job of ignoring the situation.now at the mcg you can cop a $5,000 fine for invading the field.

[dakynsboy]

@medievalking1066

you nasty racist twat

may you rot in hell and your children die before you

[n1ck822]

HAHAHA molestered on his way out

[JBrads91]

Let's remember he wasn't wearing a helmet!!! Different game!

[stretchmorgan]

Boycott doesn't take any shit!

[RICHARDTOMLEY10WHARF]

hows the exgirlfriend geoff ?

[MrBazzabee]

To quote Richie:-It really is an Ugly and Miserable scene !!.....Well ! ...It usually was when Boyks was playing !!! HA HA HA HA !!!

[MrBazzabee]

Interesting point !!! What the F*** would Geoffrey himself have said about a modern-day batsman carelessly hooking (especially when the trap has just been set ) a bouncer,and should be playing 2 be there the morning after, THE LAST BALL OF THE DAY !!!!!!-- I think it might be "Do as I say,but not as I do" with ol' Geoffrey

[stellaviolens]

What a un-boycott like shot. He must have been in a bad mood. Police were good and kept a cool head. My dad would have tw*tted that fan.

Disgraceful by fans , shame on the WI.

I think we should let fans back on in UK during tea, lunch etc but only when players have gone.

[innit27]

Rorke's Drift all over again.

[MrBazzabee]

Politics aside here guys --jus love that languid run-up of Keith Boyce's--My teenage cricketing Idol !!

[mistersmith6000]

Keith Boyce!! My hero. Haven't seen him bowl since 1976!!

[darkmossie633]

west indian supporters show their real two-faced nature and nasty side

-an absolute disgrace-all of them

[darkmossie633]

black racism-never want to see a great player abused like that again

DOUBLE STANDARDS Y BLACK ----------!

[darkmossie633]

Lords just a miniature map of Britain,

considering what has followed

[1middlesbrough]

Dont you mean Geoff Boycott and yorkshire people

[ellycat]

Black racist cunts....

[darkmossie633]

i have to agree, having been abused and threatened in west indies on holiday

-they hate long time and deep hatred,

which is for all to see in this vid

[ellycat]

It could easily have been a knife..

[darkmossie633]

yes, i had not thought of that

-this is true indication of black hatred for whites

if Boycott were black, attacked by white crowds, it would have led to international incident

[ellycat]

Absolutely correct, mate. The country has gone to the dogs..

[HengistTheGreat]

1- Is this the same Sir GB that berates current players when they get out hooking etc?

2- A pat on the back is fine. But there is no need for hitting and pushing of the players.

[border205]

Not a very good shot for last ball of the day!!! Why not just play a defensive shot like me always did?

[boroinczech]

Terrible shot for the last ball of the day! Whenever an England player gets out playing a shot Boycott goes mental when he's commentating. He absolutely crucified Pietersen in the First Test against the Aussies this year. He's so arrogant and makes out he knows everything when all he's doing is reacting to the obvious.

[TheDoctor394]

Certainly, Boycott can be a pain, but he's also got the best cricketing brain I know, and his commentary is incredibly insightful.

[mkeysou812]

those fans are fucking feral, boycott got a rough deal there. no amount of "it was just the times" posturing can explain away these peoples' behaviour

[farqcue]

omg...when hes walking bat it almost looked like he was gona play a shot with his bat poised like that ..thatd be a first for GB lol!

[rofko82]

melanzana - or more accurately mulignan - means aubergine / egg plant in Sicilian. It is a horrible racist term. It is not 'from the sopranos' any more than 'n****' is 'from pulp fiction'.

[Razzler94]

melanzanes?

[Wrexhammental]

It's from the Sopranos. You should get hold of it, greatest tv programme ever made imo. I won't tell you what melanzane means though, you'll have to wait and see.

[Wrexhammental]

i wouldn't fancy having to walk through all those melanzanes!

[jigafez]

yeah i think there was a young curtly ambrose in there somewhere,thats why westindian cricket isnt going far cos there players don't take the game seriously anymore,gone are the days of richards and holding,the professionalism isnt there anymore.

[mts1977]

You heard Ritchie - Boycott was molested! It's that serious!!

[PAKZINDA1]

wat a bad loser boycot

[leedsfanca]

Hit the buggers Geoffrey ! Nice to see them grovel again this summer.

[gavaskarvishymare6]

is boycs for real..getting out to last ball of the day is so stupid....and to play that kind of stupid shot...certainly deserves the booooos..as for scuffling and shoving its hilarious..

[bullysgod]

typical west indian behaviour--fucking ignorant twats

[maxlogica]

your spouting racist bollocks like that from behind the safety of your computer screen then label others 'ignorant'?!?

[maxlogica]

madbob73, you need to rename this video..'geoff boycott takes out frustration and attacks innocent cricket fans armed with cricket bat and police security' after getting out and crying like a baby...fucking twat ..

[MUstudios]

They shouldn't be on the pitch any way, and as for "attacking', thats a bit harsh.

[maxlogica]

Watch the video, he pushes and barges his way through the crowd then armed with a bat smashes another person away while police back him up, which is why 3 years later holding made em 'grovel'...

[truthoutmedia]

You are allowing your hatred of Boycott to cloud your judgement here. Boycott was simply trying to get away from the crowds who were illegally tormenting him as he left the pitch. Remember those 'supporters' should not have been on the pitch in the first place...what would you do if hundreds of people started to gather around you and push you around

'I say, would you mind stepping aside?'

[maxlogica]

Hatred? I love the chap...im just saying i completely disagree with his behaviour this day...i admire the fact he was annoyed to get out the last ball of the day..and clearly took pride in playing for england which is more than you can say for todays bunch of media whores and charlatans ( bell, collingwood and that SOUTH AFRICAN traitor pietersen). To start waving a bat around your own fans faces own is sickening..would he have down that in brixton/southall?...me thinks not.. he'd be battered.

[truthoutmedia]

God, you're so fucking negative.

[Josh9125]

Boycott could have taken all of 'em!

[bowieclone]

The most extroadinary thing about this clip is that Geoff was out in this fashion - the last ball of the day with England trying to save a test match!

[deathbytoilet]

single and ready to mingle

[maxlogica]

black geezer at the end should have smacked that racist yorskhireman in the mouth and benaud sacked for bullshitting about boycott being molested and punched and pushed

[Rentaghost76]

Fvcking blacks and pakis. Look at the barbaric cvnts in this clip. Enoch was right; Britain was literally "mad" to let these cvnts immigrate after 1948.

Boycott should've smacked those mouthy violent cvnts round the head.

[maxlogica]

i think the british government was literally 'mad' not having your whore of a mother forcibly sterilized via the NHS while she was impreganated with a moldovan donkey and producing a filthy piece of racist turd know as 'rentaghost76'...you fucking dole collecting scumbag

[mlythgoe1983]

if i was boycott it would be hard not to clobber a few of them twats across the head with the bat.

[rohitcrik]

i love Sir geoffreys autobiography i think the people in the media those days were just fucking pussies

[flashingswords]

gg162803

"is the public manhandling boycott or boycott manhandling the public? get the title right"

I'm assuming you're joking here and you're just trying to inflame people.

It's an absolute outrage what those spectators are doing! If anyone goaded me like that, I'd have taken my whip to them!

[RoryDupledorf]

Full credit to Boycott for not losing his cool there. Amazing restraint. I'm sure a lot of people would have whacked someone with their bat if you had to put up with that shit.

[cjt1881]

If I had been Boycott there might have been some bruised invaders! The man who appears from the left at 1.04 and pushes him before quickly disappearing was a total titty! Hope he was watching Eng v WI this summer!

[cjt1881]

Under the circumstances he showed remarkable restraint.

[cjt1881]

jed54321 thank you for your common sense! Some would say he had limited ability....so much so he made 22 test centuries!! He had all the shots in the book, and could score quickly if the situation demanded (1965 Gillette Cup final for example). As my dad says, how England could do with him now! It's not necessary to hit every ball for four.

[jed54321]

Boycott was a great opener. I observed his whole career and he made the best of his natural abiliites by sheer hard work/practice. One obvious example is that he was initially a poor fielder (a la dear old Monty Panesar) but with application he arguably became the best cover point in the country. Oh by the way.......I should be more than delighted to see replies to my comment but unless they come from someone who can spell, has some idea of syntax, and is not impolite, please don't bother.

[shakeystephens]

I agree with your comments about Boycott being a great player.

What I do want to point out unfortunately, is that you actually made an error with your grammar. When using ellipsis, you should only use 3 dots.

Sorry to be anal, but you can't expect others to adhere to your rules when you can't even follow them yourself.

[gg162803]

is the public manhandling boycott or boycott manhandling the public? get the title right

[lkijju]

vain07 (2 weeks ago) Marked as spam

man to this day I cant get over what an asshole boycott is if hes not beating woman and being a negative nelly hes exposing himself to children under 5

You sad bastard. You ought to be banned for a comment like that. Moron.

[pimpsoldier0]

Those ropes are gonna do a whole lot of shit

[leedsfanca]

Boycott is certainly laughing this summer. I didn't see many happy smiley Caribbeans in the stands this year as their boys were thrashed. Nice to see them grovel and get a little of their own pace treatment for a while.

[cowboymusi]

but you were never worldbeaters if my memory ser

[ZachDeHunter]

Boycott neads to be boycotted from cricket hes a ass

[grahamcooksie]

fucking wanker benaud again chatting out of his ass, 'pushed and punched by spectators'...i saw boycott pushing, no punches thrown by anyone...you gotta remember this series was played during racial tensions in britain..a tense atmosphere

[vain07]

man to this day I cant get over what an asshole boycott is if hes not beating woman and being a negative nelly hes exposing himself to children under 5

[grahamcooksie]

you seem to have some sort of vendetta against the man...he allegedly beat up his wife...think he won the court case by memory...but the child stuff is utter codswallop...

[stevanroth]

Earth to cricket fans! get a grip and use the brain in your heads for once. superbarnsley, your post is excellent and an example of how we as humans can use our brain to actually think things throuth. Think before you print stone age comments.

[superbarnsley]

There's a huge pitch invasion, you've thrown away your wicket on the last ball of the day, you probably want to let fly at something and you want the refuge of the dressing-room. While there's little doubt Boycott's a twat he was a professional at the crease and the hardest man to get out in the England side for nigh on twenty years. Some idiots got in his way while he was furious with himself and he pushed them, the race being neither here nor there. He felt threatened.

[joetyer]

Don't forget that Boycott was from Yorkshire, famously a place where they 'Call a spade a nigger". With that kind of 'humour', Boycott's surname was a precient indication of the proper policy towards South Africa, and the patently agressive behaviour he received from the West Indies supporters was undoubtably deserved. Footage like this might seem from an impossibly distant era, but at least it provided a radically direct forum for dissent.

[mynameisjonnytwotime]

So, what you're saying is: he's white and from Yorkshire so he must be racist and therefore deserved to be smacked around by some black guys.

Wasn't aware of Yorkshire's famous saying about spades and niggers. Did you just make that up?

I'd like to dissent with you radically on this one a la West Indian crowd, but unfortunately, I'm never going to meet you. Although I wouldn't mind betting that, in person, you keep this kind of bullshit to yourself.

[mymentor]

Damn good thing that this sort of nonsense has been stamped out. Totally unacceptable - spectators don't belong on the field. Period.

[kuifjeenbobbie]

Bad behaviour by boycott, but bad behaviour by all those who shoved him unneccesarily. And why did that man in the pink jacket deliberately obstruct him?..how dare he.

[aceslespaul]

boycott was reknowned as an asshole.

[harryshand]

was?

[vain07]

kill that honkey bastard boycott. He is a wife beater who gets his thrills exposing himself to little girls

[grahamcooksie]

not sure about that last bit mate...

[Durbs75]

What's all this got to do with Geoff Boycott??

[grahamcooksie]

In the commentary box he's priceless but this clip confirms many reports ive heard and read concerning the fact that hes a nasty piece of work off it.

[ellisqpr86]

there's only 1 geoffrey bocott

[appall90210]

tnx dude....this clip is priceless

[BennyP07]

if i was the england player i wuldnt of held back with that cricket bat..

[chrissyman77]

west indies fans were the worst during the 70's along with the pakis

[swyke]

...and your mother's had the lot of them, good for her, sure you'll find your daddy one day ;)

[grahamcooksie]

they sure were! they sure did hand out some nasty beatings and whitewashes to the englishmen

[Rexell28]

Perhaps that's where he got the idea to beat his bird up from! Watch how me ignores loads of shoves and then hits a white woman with his cricket bat. He is a knob.

[Normski3000]

He hardly hit her. He wafted it at her, didn't even make contact.

[Marticulated]

Dickheads.

[chand1]

lol what cracking scene- Geoff boycott is great character but tough West Indians people are super their bring happiness and smiles to the ground.

[ark28]

I thought it was funny Boycott was bricking it lol :)

[transistorized]

disgusting

[englandwc06]

west indies what a load of fucking dickheads

[rowleybirkin]

Fuck off you ignorant twat.

[englandwc06]

oooo a west indies knob head az discoverd da internet lol

[swyke]

...ay an' we're both heading over to your mam's for a spit-roast later so tell da bitch to grease up her flaps ;)

[bajandrifter]

who de rassole u feel u is... ya fuckin idiot

[burgess106]

although it's boycott who's a complete tosser. I cant believe what I saw. A complete lack of respect for a professional player.

[02dsha]

cunts