Values !!

Who did they believe they were ? Teenagers, out on the town,drunk and oblivious of their responsibility towards the rest of society. Were they the "benefit scroungers" or the "feral youth" from the inner cities, were they the British holidaymaker unloved for their crass behaviour in Ibiza, no they were the England Cricket Team !!
One wonders when one considers the secure middle class backgrounds from which they were raised, where did all the good parenting go. The hours of constant if mild discipline which is directed at a child from its toddler stage of what is good acceptable behaviour. Don't pull your sisters hair, don't hurt the cat, don't play with matches, don't wee on the patio. We have all been groomed to behave. Some of us do better than others but as individuals we sometimes justify our bad behaviour with an excuse. There can be no excuse for young men, wearing the countries official emblematic uniform to behave as the celebrating cricket team did at the Oval.    We have all been "caught short" as the saying goes, without a toilet in miles and we have to go !!   Perhaps shrubs provide the privacy we "instinctively" need, another throw back from our childhood training, a training which goes towards obtaining the "civilised badge".
The toilets at the Oval are not gated and locked.     It takes what should be, inherent discipline, to search for a toilet and fulfil the training your Mother thought she had instilled in you.
Perhaps the conquering mindset sets its self on a higher plain from ordinary mortals. 
We often see it in the cult of celebrity, their outlandish behaviour, where money insulates and isolates them from ordinary society and the rules we all live by ? 
These young men should understand that when they were chosen to represent the country they become representative of much more than the team. They represent all of us and in doing so we should demand, in no uncertain way, that they understand this !!