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I can't remember the last time I've felt so uptight before a sporting event as I do today, the eve of the Ashes. I imagine it's all the build-up that's getting to me, and the fact that if Australia walk it I'll be suffering taunts for the entire summer. Can England keep it alive? I hope so - neither team are as strong as they were last time but my lot are looking particularly fragile. I hope it's still a contest in January, when I'm going to a couple of days at the SCG.
My brainwashing of Beth as a future Barmy Army soldier begins tomorrow.
"Say Flintoff"
"Fuh"
"That'll do"
I've got to attend a bloody training course all day tomorrow, so I won't even be able to listen to the day unfold. It's a disgrace I tell you. the course convenor is a pom too - I've had words.
In other news: she's sassy. she's beautiful, she's a librarian (kinda) - she's Ms Dewey. I'm in love!
posted by Tom Goodfellow @ 4:53 PM
1 Comments:
As another expat Pom, I have to say that I am appalled by the way people keep on banging on about the old country. Now this isn't just Poms, it's Kiwis who won't shut up about the all blacks, or Greeks who cheer Greece over Australia in the round ball game.
Wehn my family stepped onto the runway at Kingsford Smith, we decided Australia was home now and there was to be no more barracking for the old country.
That said, I add my hopes for an English victory in the cricket. Not that I am supporting England (you understand) but rather I can't stand the Aussie cricketers. they are a bunch of poor sports on and off the field. They sledge even when they are winning. They treat other countries (and their people) like dirt. And to top it off they insist that Warnie should be playing, despite the obvious facts that he is a drug cheat and in the pocket of Indian bookies. If he was playing for any other nation, Australians would be up in arms because we're always the first to call cheat when anyone else give a positive test.
The trouble is, that of late I've been finding that I feel the same way about the Leaguies (come on New Zealand) and i would probably feel the same way about international rules if it wasn't for the fact that that is a joke game, so I don't care about AFL players acting like dickheads (they all are anyway).
All in all it is getting hard to support Australians in any sport and still keep your sense of fair play and decency.
Still, at least the union boys are learning to be gracefully loosers. I just hope they can start winning a few and still keep the good manners
Damn,
that was long enough that I shouldn't waste it in a comments box. I need to post that in my own blog.
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