To put Compton’s achievements in perspective, it would be like Joe Root playing for Liverpool - Jersey Evening Post

To put Compton’s achievements in perspective, it would be like Joe Root playing for Liverpool - Jersey Evening Post

By Lindsay Ash SOME time ago in the 1970s a hotel in Torquay hired a firm of builders whose work was less than satisfactory. The hotel proprietor blamed one of the staff for the errors, using the following phrase: “Well, whose fault is it then, you cloth-eared bint – Denis Compton’s?” This raises two questions for the modern reader. Firstly, why the proprietor – one Mr Basil Fawlty – was not subject to arrest and charged with misogynistic hate s…