I love it when Popbitch turns up a good sports story...

Ian Botham, we're told, tells a great Geoffrey Boycott story. On Beefy's first tour abroad, Boycott was dropped halfway through the series. So Botham, feeling sorry for him, took a bottle of whisky up to Geoff's room to commiserate. He finds Boycott naked, apart from his pads. He made Botham sit on the bed, while he got his bat and practised his forward defensive, saying to Beefy "Now tell me, what's wrong with that stance? Nothing, that's what".

Story works best if you imagine Geoffrey's broad Yorkshire accent. Samples of that, and a passable impression of aforementioned forward defensive stance can be found in the following video...