Yorkshire really do not help themselves. On Friday, Sportsmail reported that a second ex-White Rose player had come forward with fresh claims of racial misconduct at the county.
The club’s response? ‘This behaviour would be completely unacceptable to the club. It goes without saying we will investigate thoroughly.’
Later that day, the Jewish News broke the story that head coach Andrew Gale had called Leeds United’s former head of media Paul Dews a ‘Yid’ in a subsequently-deleted 2010 tweet.
Yorkshire’s response? ‘This kind of behaviour would be completely unacceptable to the club. Now we are aware of it, it goes without saying that we will investigate the allegation thoroughly.