Andrew Flintoff was a good enough cricketer, though not really a superstar. His frequent injuries may well have contributed to his failure to reach the true heights, but I somehow think that his lack of basic intelligence was a bigger factor. Since his retirement from the cricketing stage, Flintoff has attempted to make a second career in the media, without achieving anything very exciting. Now he's taken to the boxing ring which must surely indicate a degree of desperation about where his next meal is coming from.
By all accounts, his performance in the ring was pretty average at best and he suffered a second round knock down; nonetheless, he did eventually win a scrappy contest by the narrowest of points margins after four 2-minute rounds. Whether he will ever fight again may be in the balance but I suspect money and publicity will win out over common sense and he will, indeed, risk what few brains he has by having another go.
To my mind, the modern craze for former sportsmen to take up second careers as television presenters, dancers and 'celebrities' in the the jungle demeans their earlier achievements. However, Flintoff's ridiculous reincarnation as a pugilist must just about be at the very bottom of the barrel.
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