Symonds mentions Bhajji as the cause for his behavior....

[h4te]

Andrew Symonds has admitted that alcohol played a part in his poor attitude this year and getting axed from the squad in Darwin was the wake-up call he needed to address his behaviour. Symonds also conceded that he had hurt his relationship with his good friend Michael Clarke, the stand-in captain when the Darwin decision was made. Speaking for the first time about the reasons that led to his being sent home, Symonds said he had started drinking too much after last season's racism row with the India spinner Harbhajan Singh. Harbhajan was alleged to have called Symonds a monkey during the Sydney Test and was suspended for three Tests but the ban was overturned on appeal. "At times, I was drinking too much and I wasn't a good bloke to be around," Symonds said on Channel Nine. "I had turned bad, I think, with the buildup of the whole of last summer and the things that had unfolded. "I wasn't in a great place. Looking back now it probably happened at the right time that I got sent home and told to straighten myself out. I feel much better within myself. Even if I don't come back and play great cricket, I know that I have done something that will improve what I need to be as a person." It is not the first time Symonds has revealed his trouble with alcohol. In his 2006 autobiography, Symonds recalled the sketchy details of a pub crawl in Cardiff the previous year that led to him being dumped from the side that played Bangladesh the next morning when he turned up at the ground drunk. Having missed the recent tour of India, Symonds is likely to return to the Test side at the Gabba on Thursday, when Australia take on New Zealand. Symonds has not played a Test since the tour of the Caribbean and it was on that trip that reports emerged of a bar-room argument between him and Clarke. It was Clarke who tried to help Symonds sober up after his Cardiff bender and on the 2006 tour of South Africa pulled Symonds away from a potential punch-up with a rugby player. But their relationship took another blow when Clarke was a key part of the team leadership group that sent Symonds home from Darwin following his fishing trip and Symonds said he had not treated Clarke, the team's vice-captain, appropriately. "I did something silly with him one night and I suppose I was a bit disrespectful to him," Symonds said. "That relationship is still alive, but to be perfectly honest it is not what it was. We are both making efforts to get it back to where it was because that's a friendship I don't want to lose." Symonds knows he cannot afford another behavioural slip-up or "it's not going to be a pretty ending". He made his comeback appearance in Australian colours in the All-Stars Twenty20 match on Friday, when he regained some of his lost form with 45 from 35 balls. © Cricinfo

SERIOUSLY?? AGAIN?? How many times do you have to bring it up? He was found not guilty. I think Bhajji can sue for slander/libel, whatever now! this is pathetic.....

[flamy]

Mentally disintegrated :cantstop:

[Desi Cartman]

Mentally disintegrated :cantstop:

:dito: and what sort of abuse cause him to get drunk in Eng few years ago ?

[Ram]

Woah! Bhajji is bloddy legendz! :isalute:

[flamy]

Woah! Bhajji is bloddy legendz! :isalute:

:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: that he is :D

[Holysmoke]

Mentally disintegrated :cantstop:

:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: Tugga will be :wall:

[punjabi_khota]

****ing sore losers. So that is how strong your OZ ass is actually, Mr. Symonds? That you ****ing drink like a jilted lover after that incident.? He is the real panzy.

[h4te]

this is too hilarious :haha::hysterical::hysterical: at the same time F***** annoying!!!! :whack::wall: what do i do? :dontknow:

[Holysmoke]

this is too hilarious :haha::hysterical::hysterical: at the same time F***** annoying!!!! :whack::wall: what do i do? :dontknow:

http://www.intternetti.net/~jiri/motivation/fap.jpg

[graphic23]

Terrible terrible people. Symonds is an idiot.

[flamy]

http://www.intternetti.net/~jiri/motivation/fap.jpg

:woot::woot::woot:

[Desi Cartman]

if we think about it, a whole stadium chanting racial abuse , all news channel showing that you are getting abused, all news paper having a quote that people called u Monkey. It can take bring down anybody. In a way I feel sorry for Symo. Its very difficult to move on after being racially abused and seeing it everywhere in the media. Its very difficult to get it out of one's head.

[fineleg]

edited - since some dont prefer this to be there -finey

[flamy]

http://www.lovesanimals.com/images/animals/monkey/funny_monkey.jpg

I think it's time this feller was banned for racism :cantstop:

[h4te]

edited by h4te

in b4 ban!

I think it's time this feller was banned for racism :cantstop:

:withstupid:

[fineleg]

would lord hanuma pics also have to be banned from ind aus series grounds, eh?

[flamy]

:withstupid:

:haha: damn you, u lil goldfish turd, I wanted to be the first to use that smiley! grrrrrrrrrrrr........zmon!

[h4te]

would lord hanuma pics also have to be banned from ind aus series grounds' date=' eh?[/quote'] i'd take one to the stadium for the LULZ! ****, i want to get one autographed by Symonds. Imagine the look on his face. LULZ! (no sin)

[fineleg]

i'd take one to the stadium for the LULZ! ****, i want to get one autographed by Symonds. Imagine the look on his face. LULZ! (no sin)

:icflove: Yeah, Symo has taken this to an extreme by re-opening the closed issue several times.

[Desi Cartman]

would lord hanuma pics also have to be banned from ind aus series grounds' date=' eh?[/quote'] its not right to call anybody a monkey in a racial way. Its just plain wrong.