Pick one of the egg-shaped ball sports. A player has a kick for goal after the siren. If he makes it, they win, if he misses they lose. He misses and all and sundry do their best to say that the loss had nothing to do with this one kick.
There were plenty of opportunities earlier to win. But let’s be honest, all they are doing is trying to rationalise the loss and not turn the kicker into a scape-goat.
The reality of the situation is that it all DID boil down to that one action. That one act alone defined who won and who loss.
Every shot you take in a golf tournament is of critical importance. But are you going to tell me that a shot on Thursday morning has the same weight as one on Sunday afternoon?
The whole aura of Tiger is built around the fact that no-one could compete with him on a Sunday. If he had the lead you were as good as done.
The gravity of what YE Yang did was that he did in on the back nine on Sunday, with Tiger standing alongside him.
The phrase “swallowing the whistle” is universal in its meaning. It means that in the closing moments of a sporting encounter the officials aren’t going to make any calls.
They are just going to let it go and allow the players to decide it.
This was why the free kicks in the closing moments of the Collingwood Vs Adelaide game were unusual, because umpires don’t traditionally pay free kicks in closing moments of close finals.
Was this what Ben Rutten was banking on when he decided to grab John Anthony’s arm?
In situations where the lead changes so often, the winner isn’t who was better or worst. Rather, who just happened to be in front when time expired.
In sport, one needs context to explain things. It provides a perspective that allows clarity. At the beginning of a match, who knows how things are going to turn out?
A missed tackle or dropped catch could be neither here nor there.
But when you need to hit a boundary off the final ball of the match to win, that seems kind of cut and dry.
So John Terry would still be feeling the pain of slipping while taking that penalty, while Scott Norwood still cops it for missing to the right in Super Bowl XXV.
On the flipside, Kirk Gibson still gets praised for that home run. And I guess we have to ask John Eales if he is still shouting Toutai Kefu.
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