The Daily Observer London Desk: Reporter- Judith Benjamin
Former Australian athletes Pat Cash and Trevor Hendy – both noted anti-vaxxers – have turned heads after joining of panel of fellow sports stars to share their bizarre views on the global pandemic.
They have also been labelled by some fellow Aussies on social media as being ‘majorly cooked’, a slang term given to Covid-19 conspiracy theorists.
Cash, 57, is a tennis legend after winning Wimbledon in 1987 while Hendy, 54, was an all-conquering professional surf lifesaver in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Both men haven’t been shy to voice their opinions on Covid-19 in recent years – so it wasn’t a surprise they jumped at the chance to join the likes of surfing icon Kelly Slater and retired Premier League midfielder Matt Le Tissier on a wild conspiracy theory broadcast.
Dubbed Club Grubbery Athletes with Voices, the array of sports stars shared their personal experiences when the world was in lockdown.
The panel included Cash, Hendy, Slater, Le Tissier, NBA Hall of Famer John Stockton and NFL Green Bay Packers Hall of Famer Ken Reuttgers.
Aussie tennis great Pat Cash has turned heads after joining of panel of fellow sports stars to share his views on the global pandemic
Cash was joined by former professional surf lifesaver Trevor Hendy, also an anti-vaxxer
Cash’s tale was extraordinary to say the least.
He discussed emission reduction targets, focusing on a ‘certain area’ in a suburb near his London base.
‘The environmental lockdowns … are going to be subtle, just like everything else,’ Cash stated.
‘I live in London, and there’s a certain area of a suburb where you cannot drive down for emissions, there’s an emission lockdown.
‘There’s been signs for years, low emissions, all this sort of stuff. Now if you go into that area, you drive down that area and you don’t live there, you will get fined … an infringement notice, about 80 pounds so.
‘It was never there, it’s there now, they’re starting to implement them bit by bit and that’s how it starts. “Oh, we’re looking at the environment in this area to protect the people from the pollution that’s coming out of the cars”.’
Surfing icon Kelly Slater was also on the panel – previously he called out Australians for ‘celebrating division’ when it came to people’s vaccination status
On Twitter, former EPL star Matt Le Tissier retweeted a post suggesting the media ‘lied’ about certain events during the global pandemic
