O/T Ollie Robinson.

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If you’re asking me: For the lads sake I’d punish him once ie make him apologise - which he has. However, and I’ll put this in general terms to avoid libel, my guess is that anyone who said something at let’s say 18 probably meant it then and probably still means it now. And things haven’t changed much, the talk on building sites, in wood yards and amongst fellas in the pub after work is IMO becoming MORE intolerant of minorities

Strange response, AF.
Firstly...making an apology is not a punishment.
Secondly...an apology in such circumstances is something he should want to do...not have to be ‘made’ to do.
Thirdly...women aren’t a ‘minority’.

I’m not certain of what was said that was ‘se xist’. The only such comment I’ve heard was silly and juvenile rather than anything worse.
As far as the racist comments are concerned...using the ‘n word’ and making facile jokes about Muslims, as I believe he did, is not acceptable and would, imo, cause a great deal of disharmony within most cricket dressing rooms.

I’m not sure how you can describe ordinary working ‘fellas’ in the way you have and a) be comfortable with that and b) question my suggestion that Oliver Downton was appealing to a populist mentality.

His defence is that he was 18...the fact you suggest his views haven’t changed is a concern.