I know we keep banging on about the cricket, but these are troubled times we find ourselves in. Things are so bad that the English are now lining up to sink the boots in to Ricky Ponting’s wounded warriors. Like hyenas circling a lame lion, the Poms are now coming over all brave and stout-hearted.
The Guardian’s cricket writer [...]
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Things really are crook when Poms say: bring on the Ashes
November 13, 2008 – 10:32 am
Cricket, Stanford-style, going to hell in a handbasket
October 31, 2008 – 11:44 pm
Forgive (again) the dewy-eyed sentimentalism, but the cast-iron proof that all is not well with cricket comes tomorrow when England plays the ”Stanford Superstars” in a winner-takes-all Twenty20 match in Antigua worth $1m to each player on the winning side.
The match, sanctioned by the England and Wales Cricket Board, is backed by the Texas billionaire, Sir Allen Stanford. You might [...]
Rugby League World Cup? More like the Pesapallo Playoffs
October 27, 2008 – 10:31 am
Australia’s thrashing of New Zealand in its Rugby League World Cup opener last night has laid bare the absurdly one-sided nature of the competition. Supposedly a universal celebration of the working-class game, the World Cup in fact has only highlighted so far the paucity of league talent around the globe.
The fact that New Zealand, the tournament second-favourite, can [...]
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