Opinion: His vicious attacks on some of the current Australian team reek of a former player saying something outlandish to generate a headline; to remain as relevant in retirement as he was as a player, writes Andrew Webster
In December 1997, Shane Warne bounced into a media conference in Melbourne in great spirits. He was there to unveil a waxwork double of himself commissioned by the world-famous Madame Tussauds Wax Museum.
You can’t help but wonder how Warnie The Player would have handled Warnie The Talking Head? How would one of the most sensitive, self-absorbed sportspeople we’ve ever known handle the machine-gunning he gives Australian players at every opportunity? He’s also one of those former players, of any code, who doesn’t tip-toe a line of diplomacy so that nobody gets upset. But there’s a difference between brutal honesty and brutal nastiness.
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