I hate sports, and I know next to nothing about them, but seemingly maybe more than some people issuing quotes about it on TV

Sportsday on BBC1
15 May 2014

An article regarding England cricketer  and heavily bearded Muslim role model Moeen Ali being interviewed, issuing a warning about those seeking to corrupt the game.
I’m all for it, he seems a positive role model, and thoroughly bloody nice chap. So he has a nickname of “The beard that’s feared” due to his cricketing prowess and luxuriant beard.

Here’s where it derailed. They next got a quote from Wasim Khan,
Chief Executive Cricket Foundation:

“If you’d honestly spoken to people in communities 20 years ago and said ‘Could you ever see somebody with a long beard walking out representing England ?’ they would have said ‘absolutely not’ but I think this epitomises, you know, the change that has happened and it’s all about talent”

OK

So… Who hell this?:

Nope. No beard there. Move along.