What are some of the worst losses you have experienced as a sports fan?
For me, the ‘97 and ‘98 AFL preliminary finals that the Bulldogs lost rate very highly. The Socceroos World Cup qualifier loss on away goals in ‘97 is also right up there, as is the loss to Italy at the ‘06 World [...]
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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Tragedy
April 29, 2009 – 6:44 pm
Chucking Propaganda
April 29, 2009 – 7:59 am
Younis Khan and Michael Clarke have given completely unbiased comments to the press over Saeed Ajmal ’s doosra.
Michael Clarke has said,
“Watto certainly didn’t go to the umpires and say a word, none of our players have approached the umpires and spoken about it…I think Watto was pretty upset with the shot he played and getting [...]
The Young Offspinners Manifesto
April 28, 2009 – 7:52 am
This is in honour of cricket’s latest flight flicking off spinner Saeed Ajmal who has been called for chucking his one that goes the other way.
If you’re a young kid with aspirations of playing for your country and tweaking the ball a bit, here is the 5 step plan on how to be an International [...]
All Australia needs is some old blood
April 27, 2009 – 10:09 am
All the current Australian cricket players are complete shit. None of them are worth a turd in hell. They might as well be dropped, castrated, and made to dance for coins.
True.
Luckily foxsports is on the case.
Like this time last year, the only way to fix the Australian team is by picking ex players [...]
Crikey’s AFL & NRL Hot Form Charts
April 24, 2009 – 3:20 pm
Crikey’s NRL Hot Form Chart
The Melbourne Storm has become the Melbourne Mizzle. Plodding, predictable and pedestrian, this is a team that is all Sancho Panza and no Don Quixote. They need a windmill to conquer but it won’t be New Zealand despite the Warriors own indifferent form.
The Storm’s most recent tormentors, the Tigers, must have [...]
Michael’s real spin
April 24, 2009 – 9:55 am
Yesterday I guessed as to how Michael Clarke’s press conference would go, apparently I was closer than I thought.
“I certainly don’t think we have a weakness against spin but we haven’t been performing as well as we would have liked against them,”
Michael Clarke
Being in the Australian cricket side [...]
Football’s beaten generation
April 23, 2009 – 7:41 pm
Picture this: 14-year-old Australian boys are sent abroad where they’re subjected to physical assaults by adult men for petty reasons. There’s blood and bruises. Noses are broken. There would be a national outcry, right? So why is this accepted and tolerated in the name of sport?
This Sunday Age article on under-20s [...]
Fake IPL dude
April 23, 2009 – 2:43 pm
Yes it’s about the IPL. Don’t pick up the Age or send the kid out to get a Latte just yet, this might interest you.
The IPL has lacked a little something this year, mostly close games, but there is one thing it has that it has never had before, a fake IPL player dishing [...]
Shahid Afridi 6/38, Australia lose
April 23, 2009 – 7:10 am
I wasn’t at Michael Clarke’s press conference after the latest loss to Pakistan, but I can imagine it…….
Journalist: Michael, do you think Australia has a problem with spin?
Michael Clarke: No way champ. That is rubbish. There are fewer sporting clubs in the world who deliver spin better than us. Tell me Michael Hussey [...]
And when it couldn’t get any worse for the Dockers…
April 21, 2009 – 2:38 pm
As a Fremantle fan, the season thus far has been humiliating.
In the past, in any of our myriad under-performing seasons, there’s always been a glimmer of hope — or a comical sub plot — to distract we loyal and success starved fans from utter despair. But there’s been very little thrown our way in 2009.
Where [...]
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