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Saturday 5 July 2014

Andrew Strauss insults Kevin Pietersen

Not the most surprising title for this post. Tms Facebook page has a story on another classic moment when a commentator thinks he is off air https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10152546762789904&substory_index=0&id=8244244903

It says Strauss apologises unreservedly. Yet surely there is a reservation: Strauss said what he thought (and given the history between him and KP, there is no surprise about the hostility) . He can't expect anyone to believe he was not speaking his mind. Therefore, the apology is for getting caught, not for everything.  And it is not as though he hasn't had any provocation from KP (not that that justified his actions), as I have discussed in my forthcoming book (now due end of July).  KP has always been an outspoken character, and on a recent podcast, Tuffers & Vaughan, he was in full voice.

Piers Morgan was quick to weigh in. Given how outspoken he has been throughout his media career, I presume he had no issue with Strauss expressing views as such ...

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