Poor Mitchell Johnson. First the Aussie quick bowler bowls like a drain against every team in England - including the national side, who have so far this Ashes series smashed 331 runs off him - is pillared by press both back home and in Britain, and THEN his mother steps in to add her sixpence.In the Australian media she has been blamed for distracting him after complaining of having him 'stolen' from her by his fiancée. She has now produced a gushing apology that concluded: "Never forget I love you, mate."
Sportsmen and their mothers do not always go hand in hand, and below are ten more examples when mums make their super-star kids cringe, just as they did at the school gates when they licked their hanky and wiped that grubby mark off their cheek. Cue wincing and blushing.
1. Angela Morrison
The mother of Republic of Ireland international striker Clinton Morrison, Angela, similarly felt the need to protect her little baby back in December 2002.
The then-23-year-old was turning out for Birmingham City and tangled with QPR defender Rufus Brevett at Loftus Road.
After the tempestuous game, which Brum won 1-0, Angela took exception to the treatment Brevett had given her boy and she confronted him in the players’ lounge.
Brevett said to Angela: "Your son's got a big mouth."
To which she began to swing her handbag and snarled: "I know. He gets it from me."
Stewards had to rush to the scene to stop trouble escalating.
2. Brigitte Warne
In February 2003 Australian leg-spinning great Shane Warne was suspended from cricket by the Australian Cricket Board after he was deemed to be using performance-enhancing drugs. In actual fact Warne had been taking advice from his mother on how to lose a stone or two, the vain peroxide tweaker.
Brigitte handed him a diuretic pill so he could shrink his 36” waste. Warney forgot to tell the team doctor, Trefor Jones, or the physio, Errol Alcott – perhaps because he was worried his team-mates would rib him for using drugs that are used by jockeys and excessive dieters. Or perhaps it was because diuretics are used to mask other performance-enhancing drugs …
Chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Dick Pound, was unimpressed with Warne's explanation that his mum had given him the banned tablet. "Poisoned by his mother?” Pound chuckled. “It is good, very good. It ranks up there with the one 'I got it from the toilet seat'.”
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