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You need more than MUSSULs to lead Baggy Greens

14 Oct 2010

What do Ricky Ponting, Ian Botham, Dunga, Andrew Flintoff, Bryan Robson and Martin Johnson all have in common? They are each a prime example of that fascinating sporting sub-species known as MUSSULs — Magnificent but Unsubtle Sporting Stars Unsuited to Leadership.

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As Sir Alex Ferguson has often said, you should never underestimate the importance of luck. The Ospreys had none, Leinster had bags of it, and Munster, meanwhile, had their favourite referee, Nigel Owens.

Clermont make a pig’s ear of a thrilling qtr final

12 Apr 2010

An Anglophile? Good heavens, strike him off the list at once!

Should Howard be appointed ICC chairman in 2012?

24 Jan 2010

Come on, precious, Spiro has Roebuck bang to rights. I've read enough of Roebuck to know that he loves to bang the "progressive" drum. In fact, I could pigeon-hole his politics to a ridiculous degree: almost certainly republican, in favour of multi-culturalism, and fanatical about the notion of ditching fusty old ideas (as he would see them) in favour of "progess" and "modernity". In fact, he brings to mind those famous high-born English 20th century Communists - the likes of Anthony Blunt - who rebelled against every aspect of their upbringing. That's not to say that Roebuck is a Communist - merely to say that he is self-evidently to the Left of the political spectrum. Spiro, on the other hand, is rather more enigmatic on the political front. And thank God for that. We read enough political nonsense in the rest of the newspaper without the likes of Roebuck ramming his views down our throat. I might add that most Englishmen were rather tickled by Howard's flinging of the medals in '03. The Englishman (unfairly, I think) expects such antics of Australians and is most gratified when his pre-conceptions are affirmed.

Should Howard be appointed ICC chairman in 2012?

24 Jan 2010

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