The amount of crap journalism coming out of the British Press right now is quite astounding. It must be a slow news week for them to spend all week talking about small incidental things happening at the Stanford cricket ground like the organiser having a bit of a laugh (shock horror, someone having fun in the Caribbean), and all of a sudden they are all coming out one after another like little sheep saying “this was bound to happen”, and my favourite over reaction calling it a “tacky circus of an egotistical American”. Get over yourselves, and stop thinking cricket is still in the early 1900’s.

When England were first invited to take part in the competition the press were falling over themselves to get a piece of Alan Stanford and saying how good it was this type of money was coming into the game of cricket in this country. Then, as soon as the “action” starts they start moaning that its all about the money, or Stanford himself. Which way do you want it?!

The facilities at the ground are said to be first class (or better than if you look at some county grounds in this country) – yes there have been some issues with the lights but they have said they will rectify that before the big game on Saturday. The pitch has been a bit slow and low but guess what, they had a hurricane about 10 days before the games started so to even get it on is an achievement (ask Worcestershire how long it takes them to recover after a light sprinkling of rain in comparison).

“Its all about Alan Stanford” – is one thing they are saying and here’s some news for you – no it isn’t! I’ve watched the games and guess what, I’ve seen more cricket than I have one American billionaire (who lets not forget is putting a load of money into our game as a consequence). And seeing as he is bankrolling it who’s to care if he has a camera on him every now and then? It doesn’t detract from the game going on.

I just don’t get what the media are trying to gain by all this – they are just following one another seeing as being down on the competition seems to be the “done” thing at the moment (and not just cricket – ask the people at Radio 2). Maybe instead you would prefer to be sitting in an office in London twiddling your thumbs rather than on a beach in Antigua reporting on a ground breaking game of cricket. If I was Stanford I wouldn’t invite the ECB back again anyway seeing how ungrateful they are appearing to be – get a team over that will embrace the competition and the atmosphere rather than one moaning about how they’d rather be at home.