No offence mate, but I sometimes wonder what Aussies would have to complain about if there wasn’t an England. I’ve met plenty of Australians I’ve got on very well with (in fact I have family down under), but there are plenty more who seem to make a career out of appearing on screen or in print over here telling us how our country and everything about it is a pile of shit. Sometimes people laugh politely, but to me it leaves them looking pretty bad.
As far as the coming Ashes series is concerned, the result is a foregone conclusion, especially as we’re likely to be a couple of bowlers short of our best, but I’d like to think we could give you a decent game this time. And btw, I’d vote to have the real trophy make a trip south if only for a publicity tour - the MCC are full of crap over that one, if they can insure the Tutankhamen treasures they can insure a little pot.
But seriously, most Aussies have nothing against England really. Which of course makes it all the more fun to vociferously pretend to the contrary.
I think you need to consider the implications of the words “plenty more who seem to make a career out of”. Imagine if I was a rent a quote publicity seeking Aussie minor celebrity wanker living in England, and I were to make a public comment to the effect that I was pretty fond of the place. Big news story there. The tabloids would just lap it up. I can see the headline now.
But if I make some comment about the bad plumbing and the terrible food blah blah blah… Now that’s a story.
I lived in Finsbury Park for three years. If it weren’t for certain vocational and family considerations, I’d still be living in the UK now.
I suppose I’d better mention cricket, just so this isn’t a complete hijack.
I know this is a complicated game, with all sorts of twists, but really, is there still a General Question on the table here? If not, feel free to start a “share your cricket stories here” thread in MPSIMS.
