I know the Olympics has pissed them off, but...
Aug 25th 2008, 7:27 am
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Aug 25th 2008, 7:43 am
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If you discount swimming for a moment, far from being the super over-achievers the media like to portray them as, Australian athletes are average at best. Their record in the track and field events is woeful.
The article just reflects a general pervading sense that, if the ozzies don't win, then they've generally been cheated out of it.
The article just reflects a general pervading sense that, if the ozzies don't win, then they've generally been cheated out of it.
For the first time in whoever knows how long, the UK got more golds than Australia, so why don't you all just enjoy it and not waste your time slagging off the Australians? Who knows if it will ever happen again - especially if the Scots acheive full independence!
Aug 25th 2008, 7:43 am
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Exactly... We need to remember that this is a book written by a former test player in the twilight of his career who's most likely to be best remembered for going home early from the disastrous 2006/7 ashes tour... No-one's going to read it if there's nothing juicy in there...
Aug 25th 2008, 7:50 am
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Australia have never shone in athletics since I've lived here and I've never heard it said that they were cheated out of a medal!
For the first time in whoever knows how long, the UK got more golds than Australia, so why don't you all just enjoy it and not waste your time slagging off the Australians? Who knows if it will ever happen again - especially if the Scots acheive full independence!
For the first time in whoever knows how long, the UK got more golds than Australia, so why don't you all just enjoy it and not waste your time slagging off the Australians? Who knows if it will ever happen again - especially if the Scots acheive full independence!
2. Because the shoe is now on the other foot
3. Because they like to give but cannot take.
4. Because aussie upstarts should be reminded of the pecking order in the grand scheme of things and be put in their place.
Aug 25th 2008, 8:05 am
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Bad losers - understatement of the year! Last week they had the medal table on TV (when we were lying 3rd) and we were missed out completely!
Best laugh I've had since moving here!
Best laugh I've had since moving here!
Aug 25th 2008, 8:13 am
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To the tune of the old Opal Fruits ad: Murr-ay Mints made to make the ball smoother
Aug 25th 2008, 8:51 am
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England batsman Marcus Trescothick claims in his recently released autobiography that it was his job to shine the ball and he sucked a special brand of mints for the purpose.
Cricket laws forbid the use of "any artificial substance'' on the surface of the ball.
"I was firmly established as the man in charge of looking after the ball when we were fielding,'' Trescothick writes.
"It was my job to keep the shine on the new ball for as long as possible with a bit of spit and a lot of polish - and through trial and error I finally settled on the best type of spit for the task at hand.''
England's ability to get the ball to reverse swing early in the Australian innings regularly led to the downfall of the top order.
In any case, Trescothick's cheating is irrelevant to the outcome of the Ashes. The Poms didn't win because of some minty spit on the ball. They won because they played better cricket.
On a related note, I was delighted with Australia's success at the Olympics. We finished in the top 6 (as we usually do) and proved that there is still no country of comparable size that can match us in Olympic competition.
And fair play to Team GB, whose performance was superb.
Aug 25th 2008, 9:46 am
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Aug 25th 2008, 11:26 am
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I actually had a bloke screaming at me across the office the other day that its a total disgrace that the UK "wastes" so much money training sports people, and if they only know how tough it was for Australians to get any kind of government support for their Olympic campign then they would let the Aussies win............. You could hear him all down the corridor, he was like a spolit kid 
Aug 25th 2008, 11:41 am
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Today, in the Age there was an amusing blog with an Australian poking a small amount of fun at London. The replies ran to 800!- hundreds of Brits logged hatemail on to an Australian newspaper and weren't just poking fun back - they were very angry. Makes me wonder who is really the worst sometimes....but blogs tend to attract people like that.
Aug 25th 2008, 12:30 pm
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I may be slated for this but jeeze you lot are shameful 
We win at something for a change and suddenly its Rule Brittania
I must live in a bubble as I haven't come accross anything like you lot have! And as for the snooze papers...who cares, they're all a bunch of hacks anyways
We win at something for a change and suddenly its Rule Brittania
I must live in a bubble as I haven't come accross anything like you lot have! And as for the snooze papers...who cares, they're all a bunch of hacks anyways
Aug 25th 2008, 1:12 pm
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I may be slated for this but jeeze you lot are shameful
We win at something for a change and suddenly its Rule Brittania
I must live in a bubble as I haven't come accross anything like you lot have! And as for the snooze papers...who cares, they're all a bunch of hacks anyways
We win at something for a change and suddenly its Rule Brittania
I must live in a bubble as I haven't come accross anything like you lot have! And as for the snooze papers...who cares, they're all a bunch of hacks anyways
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Aug 25th 2008, 1:14 pm
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I'd be amazed if most Aussies dont take the line that "its about time the poms won something"
Doing it twice is going to be the real test
