But wearing his heart on his sleeve has caused problems, too too. In 2019, Tthe Guardian journalist Jonathan Liew wrote an article about some of the language used in the media to describe Jofra Archer’s selection for England. Aggers took this to imply he had been racist and sent furious messages to Liew, which Liew made public, resulting in Agnew being reprimanded by the BBC.

“Yeah, it was bad. Really bad. My Dad was crushed. During the 2019 Ashes I was on antidepressants. But I still produced some of my best work. So, for anyone thinking about the impact of taking them, it got me through.”

What particularly aggrieved Agnew was that his own career at Surrey was cut short in 1977 when as a 16-year-old he stood up to Fred Titmus, an England player, who was racially abusing Lonsdale Skinner. The story only came out after his bust- up with Liew. Agnew and Liew have since made up.

“And actually, I’ll always be grateful because it got me off social media and life without that is so much easier. I occasionally dip into the reaction to something, like Michael [Vaughan] coming back [to TMS] for example. And some of the stuff on there is just wretched.

“I saw my name the other day, thought what’s that and it’s this guy who is absolutely slagging me off. So I clicked on his profile and he’s a mental health nurse. Really? And writing something like that about someone and putting it into the public domain?”

Read more at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2023/06/10/jonathan-agnew-interview/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr RH

On Saturday, June 10, 2023 at 11:26:58 PM UTC+10, Robert Henderson wrote:

> What particularly aggrieved Agnew was that his own career at Surrey was cut short in 1977 when as a 16-year-old he stood up to Fred Titmus, an England player, who was racially abusing Lonsdale Skinner.

So Agnew has a long history of being in favor of racial abuse does he?

On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 06:45:38 -0700 (PDT), Hamish Laws
<hamish.laws@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Saturday, June 10, 2023 at 11:26:58?PM UTC+10, Robert Henderson wrote:
>
>> What particularly aggrieved Agnew was that his own career at Surrey was cut short in 1977 when as a 16-year-old he stood up to Fred Titmus, an England player, who was racially abusing Lonsdale Skinner.
>
>So Agnew has a long history of being in favor of racial abuse does he?

He assumned that because he called out Titmus as a racist that he
couldn't be racist himself. Then Archer appeared and when his remarks
about Archer were scrutinised by the journo from the Guardian and
compared to his remarks about Gary Ballance and others he didn't like
it and his response almost cost him another job.

The 3 Ws - Wood, Woaks and Willey came out with the same yarn which
amounts to 'racism lite' where skin colour is not mentioned in favour
of cultural differences, upsetting the balance of the team etc.

max.it

On Saturday, June 10, 2023 at 11:45:40 PM UTC+10, Hamish Laws wrote:
> On Saturday, June 10, 2023 at 11:26:58 PM UTC+10, Robert Henderson wrote:
>
> > What particularly aggrieved Agnew was that his own career at Surrey was cut short in 1977 when as a 16-year-old he stood up to Fred Titmus, an England player, who was racially abusing Lonsdale Skinner.
> So Agnew has a long history of being in favor of racial abuse does he?

Well that was a major brianfart, I think I read in as "for" instead of "to"