So Michael Clarke has packed up his bat and ball and come home to Australia, in the middle of a tour, to hold Lara Bingle’s hand in the aftermath of her shower scene. What a fabulous role model for our cricket team he is proving to be.
- 2008 Big, big brawl with Andrew Symonds in Darwin (allegedly Symonds was well acquainted with Bingle before Clarke called dibs on her)
- 2008 Big, big brawl with Andrew Symonds in the Caribbean (wonder what that could possibly be about)
- 2009 Big, big brawl (with throat grabbing) with Simon Katich (Clarke wanted to get away early to meet up with Bingle)
- 2010 Big, big brawl with Lara Bingle in dressing room of SCG
Do we see a pattern emerging here? I think the time has come for Clarke to decide whether he wants to be a cricket player or Lara Bingle’s handbag.
So let’s try and get this whole thing in proportion. Lara Bingle had an affair with Brendan Fevola which she denied on national television and was only caught out when Fevola’s inlaws played the voicemail messages to the media therefore proving that Lara Bingle is a big fat fibber.
Lara Bingle has posed topless in men’s magazines. Lara Bingle has effectively been paid 200 grand for the shower photo. All in all not a bad day’s work. She got very well paid for being a topless model. I’ve attached photographic evidence to prove my point.
Or is the point that it’s not ok to publish nude photos
- a) without permission
- b) without payment
- c) without makeup
- d) without photoshopping or
- e) all of the above?
So why did Clarke come home? Is he going to beat up big bad Fevola? Not likely. Apparently it was to support Lara on her coming out in Women’s Day. Silly me I thought he might have been more use the previous week, but no, he’s come home for the cash payout.
Not that I think that Clarke is motivated by money. I just think they both thought together they might generate more web hits and newspaper inches–oh and look they were right. Apparently the New Zealand media were hounding the poor baby. He’s come home because the Aussie media will leave him alone.
Lara’s not very happy with the media though. Did you see her flip the press the bird from her balcony yesterday. I mean I always take phone calls on my balcony when the media are waiting outside and then get annoyed when they photograph me. Lara, Lara, be careful what you wish for.
I’m sure a lot of cricket players go through personal hardship on tours. The only difference is they handle it quietly and with dignity–the McGraths being a case in point. And guess what, no one had anything but respect for them, their situation and their privacy.
However I’m not sure that quietly and dignity will ever be two words associated with Lara Bingle and her circus. Perhaps she’d be better off hooking up with an English soccer player (don’t think she’s tried out that sport yet). Their WAGs are expected to be show pony princesses. Gosh she might even record a video. I’ve heard she’s got experience with videos. Hope no one else loses their phone.
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[...] I’m going on record here and saying that Michael Clarke is the most over-rated player on the Australian team and if he becomes captain then cricket will be off my viewing list till he’s gone. He backstabbed Andrew Symonds, parades around in his underwear and was involved in that whole sorry mess with that silly girl Lara Bingle. [...]