Cricket Burble sympathy for Symonds

Andrew Symonds has been getting a lot of grief lately and the latest thing that he seems to have done wrong is declined to have his photo taken. The fact that some idiot then decided to take offence to that is hardly his issue. The hotelier there has backed up Symonds version of events so it's clear he's done nothing wrong.

To say that he shouldn't have been there in the first place seems a bit harsh - can he really not have a quiet drink where he wants? When I asked Monty Panesar for a photo in a bar in Kuala Lumpur days before the 2006-07 Ashes flight left, he politely declined and I politely accepted that (scroll down on this page to read the conversation). Symonds was no more in the wrong than Monty was sitting in a bar in Kuala Lumpur days before leaving for the Ashes.

It would be a shame if the likes of Symonds, Flintoff etc can't have a drink without getting grief.