My jaw dropped slightly reading Metro's coverage of Freddie Flintoff's retirement today. According to the writer, it was not Flintoff's contribution to Ashes victory that makes him a hero, nor is it his sportsmanship. No, it is his "capacity for drinking beyond the call of duty which elevated him to national treasure." Apparently he "famously got heroically drunk" at a party, and that makes him worthy of admiration.
I'm pretty sure Metro has not been backward in coming forward when it comes to articles about underage binge drinking and the like. How can the media possibly condemn young people boozing when it is buying in to the getting completely plastered=funny and admirable culture which is so much a part of the UK? I think this is a problem we have as a society generally - many (most?) of us have at some point done the "I got so plastered last night, you'll never guess what happened" type drinking, so find it difficult to preach.
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