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The Man Who Bought Cricket.

SoundAsa£
SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,474
in Other Football and Sports
I have just watched back to back, the three riveting episodes of this truly superb documentary.
Allen Stanford….a rags to riches conman of the first order.
Sky Documentary Channel…..for those who have it.
Thoroughly absorbing and an eye opener for one and all, I can recommend it for its sheer audacity.

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  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    Childish but I can't ever look at Matt Prior without laughing thinking of his Mrs sat on Stanfords knee
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,838
    There’s an excellent series on BBC sounds (Sports strangest crimes - Allen Stanford the man who bought cricket) as well. It’s the sort of story if you wrote it as a screenplay, you’d be asked to tone it down to make it more believable.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,943
    Big William said:
    There’s an excellent series on BBC sounds (Sports strangest crimes - Allen Stanford the man who bought cricket) as well. It’s the sort of story if you wrote it as a screenplay, you’d be asked to tone it down to make it more believable.
    The Greg James one?  Very good, that.

    Crazy in hindsight the lengths we went to in an attempt to stave off a few players wanting to play in the IPL.

    Look what good franchise cricket abroad has done Buttler, Curran etc and the white ball team.
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,838
    North Lower Neil said:
    Big William said:
    There’s an excellent series on BBC sounds (Sports strangest crimes - Allen Stanford the man who bought cricket) as well. It’s the sort of story if you wrote it as a screenplay, you’d be asked to tone it down to make it more believable.
    The Greg James one?  Very good, that.

    Crazy in hindsight the lengths we went to in an attempt to stave off a few players wanting to play in the IPL.

    Look what good franchise cricket abroad has done Buttler, Curran etc and the white ball team.
    Yes, that's the one.

    The only good news is that unless he lives to be 150 he won't be able to buy CAFC.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,615
    I thought it was Kerry Packer who bought cricket.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,474
    I wonder how he gets on in prison, his character is that he’ll always be trying to scam someone, trouble for him is that that kind of behaviour won’t be tolerated in prison
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,217
    Maybe he was warming up buying cricket and his next target was the football world cup...as if anyone could do that.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,330
    golfaddick said:
    I thought it was Kerry Packer who bought cricket.
    He rented it for a while 
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,474
    edited November 2022
    SoundAsa£ said:
    I wonder how he gets on in prison, his character is that he’ll always be trying to scam someone, trouble for him is that that kind of behaviour won’t be tolerated in prison
    As a matter of fact he got very badly beaten up a while back (during his sentence of course)……..though I don’t know who by or the reason why.
    Can anyone throw some light on this?

  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,330
    edited November 2022
    SoundAsa£ said:
    SoundAsa£ said:
    I wonder how he gets on in prison, his character is that he’ll always be trying to scam someone, trouble for him is that that kind of behaviour won’t be tolerated in prison
    As a matter of fact he got very badly beaten up a while back (during his sentence of course)……..though I don’t know who by or the reason why.
    Can anyone throw some light on this?

    In September 2009 he was beaten up by another inmate at a privately-run detention facility in Conroe, Texas.  He was hospitalised, but his injuries weren't life threatening.  This was before his trial.  His legal team tried to claim that the injuries he received caused amnesia and therefore he should not stand trial.  

    Because of time served, his sentence has significantly less time to run that the prosecutors had demanded.  He could be released as soon as March 2103.  
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  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,655
    That’s quite a long sentence Chizz
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,832
    Blackheathen said:
    That’s quite a long sentence Chizz
    Nah, used punctuation and paragraphs 
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,330
    Blackheathen said:
    That’s quite a long sentence Chizz
    110 years. 

    I think they wanted to be certain he isn't going to be a repeat offender. 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    Blackheathen said:
    That’s quite a long sentence Chizz
    For Chizz, anything over five words is a long sentence.
  • Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch
    Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch Posts: 1,785
    Cheers for the tip @SoundAsa£ - was a good watch

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