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Having lived in Australia for over five years and being bombarded with the local media in relation to biased reporting of your sporting teams, I’m beginning to wonder whether Aussies are just bad losers.
In this period of time it would appear no Australian sporting team has actually lost a sporting event legitimately.
Confused? Well all you have to do is tune in to any media coverage after your team has been beaten (that’s if you can actually find any) and sure enough there will be a reason why your team has lost.
These excuses mainly revolve around the opposition cheating to achieve the victory and have no limit to their ridiculousness.
This has been highlighted further by the recent Ashes series being played in England, but is not limited just to cricket.
Recently the British and Irish Lions rugby union side toured Australia, a huge event on the sporting calendar that only happens every 12 years in this country.
The touring Lions eventually won the series 2-1 with a convincing victory in the final Test.
However, as well as the usual excuses regarding ‘not scoring enough tries’, and ‘a boring, goal-kicking team’, was the Lions only won because of being made up of ‘multiple countries’.
Hello! The clue is in the title. It’s the British and Irish Lions. Not England or Wales or Scotland or Ireland touring, but a team made up of representatives from all of these sides, which is the reason it’s so rare and so special.
However, in various conversations with my next door neighbour I realise not everyone is clear which countries constitute Great Britain or the United Kingdom.
In quizzing him further he didn’t really know where Wales was. I’m hoping history and geography is still taught in schools, but to what level, who knows?
Wales is not a town, a city, a county or a state but an actual country. Wales, together with England and Scotland makes up Great Britain. Add Northern Ireland and you get the official title of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Hell, even your most populated state is named after Wales.
However, the main sport to grip the nation lately of greatest excuses has to be cricket and the Ashes.
I guess this started way back with the Bodyline series, where instead of England bowling half volleys to The Don to enable him to score another 300 runs, they decided to adopt a different tact of bowling short pitched deliveries aimed at the body with a strong leg side field.
And so the cheating began!
Since then, we’ve had doctored pitches, South African players, jelly beans and – more recently – DRS, players not walking (just substitute Stuart Broad with Ian Chappell, Steve Waugh or Ricky Ponting and see if your opinion changes) and the latest breaking news, silicon tape on the side of the bat.
You just can’t make this stuff up, another scoop from the legendary, unbiased journalism from Channel Nine
Heaven forbid, instead of being bad losers and looking for further ridiculous reasons for your team losing, just maybe respected journalists could write an in-depth article on the demise of Sheffield Shield cricket and the lack of quality players coming through the system?
One final thought, maybe you could acknowledge that sometimes the better team actually wins and that your current team is just, well, pretty rubbish!
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