DeadVim

Crickey, have I been beamed to Planet Zog?

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/spor...802-1i9y7.html

moneypenny20

Loved the first two comments Warne and the pantomime villain was quite good as well

stevenglish

Great article, one of the first times I've seen English sport being praised up by an Aussie journo, fingers crossed for some rocking horse shite and a head job off of Sarah Palin

chris955

It was grudging but fair play to him, it must have been hard. Some of the comments after the story were childish and unfortunately reinforce the view that Aussies are pretty poor sports.

DeadVim

The observation that criticising the number of 'South Africans' in the team was hypocritical considering the Australian Olympic squad was a blindingly obvious fact that I never thought I'd hear an Aussie journalist utter.

He must be a pom, right?

DeadVim

I very rarely read the feedback, it's too depressing.

chris955

Yes the hypocrisy when I hear that comment is amazing when you look at the number of 'imported' sports stars we have here.

moneypenny20

I thought it more tongue in cheek than grudging. As for the childish comments, there were two out of 25. I guess it depends on how you feel about a place, as to how you read an article.

Amazulu

It's gonna be 2-2, series drawn.

Seriously, England are playing well and will probably be No.1 in a few weeks - and deserve it. Looking into the immediate future though and England do not have a winter tour coming up, so this series is the last test cricket for them this year. SA have 2 home series coming up against Australia and Sri Lanka. We will win both and be No.1 in January as I think Australia will beat India this summer.

chris955

It does make you wonder about some people when you read the comments, I tend to lose interest after reading a few.

DeadVim

I never read internet forums either, too many nutters

chris955

You're not wrong

fish.01

what's this, a thread where a british sports fan is not claiming the sporting moral high ground...oh, you were being sarcastic...as you were

formula

Especially when you look up the facts on those 4 "South Africans" they mentioned in this article: with the exception of Trott who is only of English descent, the others are either half English or were raised in the UK.

Kevin Pieterson’s mother is English and he moved back to England when he was age 19.

Matt Prior’ father is English and they moved back to England when Matt was age 11.

Andrew Strauss moved to England when he was age 6.

Jonathon Trott is of English descent.

papilon

Australian sports cricket journalist Gideon Haig actually supports England when it comes to Cricket.