HOT OR NOT: Kyrgios was right to question ‘boneheaded’ Djokovic… but Fury shows his peculiar side

It’s Hot or Not time again as Sportsmail’s Riath Al-Samarrai reveals what’s been making him feel warm and what’s been leaving him cold this week. 

HOT  

NICK KYRGIOS

There are times when he is beyond irritating and there are times when he brings life to the party. There are also times when only he will do. Such as when Novak Djokovic, in a petri dish of his own positive vibes and positive tests, staged a tournament with lax protocols during a pandemic. Few in tennis question their lords, but thankfully Kyrgios is a touch different. He called it ‘boneheaded’, which was possibly too kind.

Nick Kyrgios has again taken a pop at the organisers of the Adria Tour after Novak Djokovic became the sixth person directly involved in the tournament to test positive for Covid-19

Tweeting a video of players from the event partying in a nightclub, Kyrgios said the decision to play amid the pandemic made his previous indiscretions pale by comparison 

RASSIE ERASMUS

It emerged this week that Erasmus coached the Springboks to the 2019 Rugby World Cup while battling a life-threatening disease that required chemotherapy during the tournament. Just consider how incredible that is. 

BEN MEE

If Matt Hancock has achieved one thing in this crisis, it is that he unwittingly started a conversation about the societal value of footballers. Burnley’s captain provided the latest example of what they are worth when he hijacked his own interview to slam the idiots responsible for that horrible banner.

Ben Mee condemned fans that flew a banner reading ‘white lives matter’ over the Etihad

A message reading ‘white lives matter Burnley’ was visible as players took the knee

NOT 

TYSON FURY

According to Bob Arum, Fury has distanced himself from the alleged gang boss Daniel Kinahan. Which is good, one must suppose. Irrespective of whether we believe it, it shows he isn’t tone deaf. But then he goes on social media and backs Kinahan to be Irish PM. Peculiar man, indeed.  

PGA TOUR

THEY have had four positive tests for Covid across the past couple of weeks, so it is necessary to look at US golf’s defences. So far we have heard of a testing system that doesn’t test everyone onsite, a chartered plane that you don’t have to use and a hotel you can overlook. It’s not so much a bubble as a jet of soapy water in your eye.

HULL CITY

They banned the local newspaper for negative coverage. Because it is apparently negative to say a failing team is failing. With such sound judgment, it truly is a shock that they are heading so fast towards League One.