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Loading ...Well, he has just broken a finger as well. That’ll leave him out of domestic cricket for a while. By the time the finger has healed, the dog bite - which isn’t too serious by all accounts - will have healed. As such, the latest incident is hardly a tragedy - hence his disappointment. He’s disappointed that this has happened on top of the finger, but it’s impact will be negligible. Why make a song and dance about it? Disappointment sounds about right to me
Hayden “disappointed” by dog attack
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of October Leave a comment on this post
“I was was out for a leisurely run. You are always a bit shocked by that sort of thing but I was more disappointed than anything.”
Those are Matthew Hayden’s words after being attacked by a dog. I’m not going to guess the dog’s owner or anything (although it’s clearly one of Duncan Fletcher’s…or maybe Troy Cooley is our double agent), no. The thing that got me was “I was more disappointed than anything.” You what? Is that really an emotion you experience when viciously attacked by a dog?
Spilling your beer in front of someone you’re trying to impress is disappointing. Not being selected for a tour is disappointing. Your Dad thumbing through your exercise book and finding “Mr Batty is a tosser” - that’s disappointing, for him (not to mention poor old Mr Batty).
Being bitten on your ankle, or anything else for that matter, is rather more serious than disappointing. For who? Him, the dog or the dog’s owner?
It’s more media speak, the like of which I’m utterly sick of. Go to any press conference around the world and the losing captain will be disappointed to lose. WELL OF COURSE THEY ARE, THEY’VE JUST LOST A BLOODY GAME. There will come a day when a losing skipper will be “delighted” to lose a game or, better, “enthralled”. “The lads were great today. We played our worst and it came off [finger-pun not intended]. Australia weren’t the better side yet they still won, and that’s credit to our own pathetic ability. I’m proud at our consistency in being so poor. We rock, frankly, and no one can take that away from us…until we decide to win again, which we won’t.”
That’s what we want. We don’t need glib adjectives like disappointed. What about devastated, crushed, humiliated, suicidal?
Tags: australia, dog, dog-attack, glib, matthew-hayden, media-speak |
8 Responses to “Hayden “disappointed” by dog attack”
October 22nd, 2006 at 2.28 pm
October 22nd, 2006 at 7.19 pm
Knowing Hayden’s reputation, the poor mutt will probably end up on his BBQ…
October 22nd, 2006 at 10.16 pm
It’s always nice to see how much you hate your career’s influence on the game. Though, I’m all for journalistic review of institutions - but people are allowed to have *some* kind of emotion, right?
October 22nd, 2006 at 10.30 pm
It was an odd comment, that’s all. And it’s symptomatic of sportsmen these days who, once embedded into the national team, all sound identical to one another.
October 23rd, 2006 at 12.35 am
Although slightly different, the statement after the game/match that “We deserved to win” (when they didn’t) fills me with equal parts of despair and amusement. No-one deserves a result in sport, let alone preordained outcomes based on some conception of one’s place in the grand scheme of things.
October 23rd, 2006 at 3.34 am
Blame the mandatory press conferences and the banal nature of many of the hacks’ questions…Not to mention their proclivity to pounce like a rotweiller on any interesting comment and twist it ouf of recognition. We get the drivel we all deserve.
October 23rd, 2006 at 3.36 am
Between them, the journalism and lego-judicial industries have a lot to answer for.
October 24th, 2006 at 11.34 pm
Still it’s not as bad usage as this…… During the coverage of the Football World Cup on Canadian TV pundit Craig Forrest was asked “how will the Mexican goalkeeper approach this game, given what’s happened to him this week?.” Always one for the cliche Craig replied “Well, his father passed away on Thursday. He’ll be disappointed with that.”
