I only managed to watch the last 30 overs, and I’ll concede that most of the others did their bit, but without Mr Cricket’s unflappability we would have been hard pressed to win the 3rd ODI against South Africa.
From what I saw of it, a great match, with good performances on both sides.
Fair result, Soutie?
Who are these boofheads running the IRB?
As all you Rugby types will already know, Les Bleus have been fined for linking arms and walking towards the Kiwis while they were doing their nuts – sorry, doing the Haka. Makes a change from the French running for cover and eating cheese. I wouldn’t have known about this, had not the Brisbane Times article caught my eye (click on the piccie to read it). You’ll find that 98% of the Aussies reading it – some 8,300 – think that they shouldn’t have been fined, and the comments indicate that it’s time New Zealand grew up and stopped enforcing unfair rules on other teams.
Ban the Haka!
Sort of says it all really 🙂
The finals weekend is upon us.
Lots of ups and downs, The Boks were dismissed early, The Irish looked as though they could go all the way, The English, well what can one add about the English, crucified by their press for perhaps not much more than most of us have done on tour.
The Argies were magnificent and fought above their weight once again and Scotland, well what can one say, I blame the bagpipe ban!
So, onto the bronze medal match tomorrow and then the final on Sunday….
Australia 21 – Wales 22
New Zealand 29 – France 9
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Not much more to say, is there Soutie? 😆
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I am a regular reader of the ABC’s Drum – a fact that probably leaves most of you cold unless you happen to recall the occasional article that I have linked here for your amusement.
Most of the time the articles are too specifically Australian to be worthy of exposure on The Chariot, but today there is a beaut inspired by the imminent arrival of Betty and Phil in Canberra this evening for a short visit which will, at last, include Brisbane, and will culminate in the opening of CHOGM in Perth in ten days time.
Strangely, the piece – entitled “Long to reign over us – God save the Republicans” – was not written by an Aussie, but by an antipodean-savvy Brit; it’s a lament for the failure of republicanism in both countries, and a damning, but amusing, indictment of the movement’s shortcomings.
Having chuckled, I decided that I needed to learn more about this bilingual Brendan O’Neill, so I did a little armchair surfing. It turns out that the gentleman is the editor of Spiked, a UK web-site vaguely similar to the Australian Punch, a source that has also been linked here to the dismay of our more restrained members.
Now, this is where the story really takes off.
Man jailed for racist internet post
A man who used a social networking website to post sectarian comments about Catholics and Celtic supporters has been jailed for eight months.
Stephen Birrell, 28, from Glasgow, was also handed a five-year football banning order at Glasgow Sheriff Court for writing the comments on a Facebook page titled Neil Lennon Should Be Banned.
Sentencing him, Sheriff Bill Totten said the courts had to send “a clear message to deter others who might be tempted to behave in this way”.
One of the comments, posted a day before a Celtic v Rangers game on March 2 this year, read: “Hope they all die. Simple. Catholic scumbags ha ha.”
Two days after the match, he wrote: “Proud to hate Fenian tattie farmers.”
Unbelievable!
I have no idea if there is more to this story than meets the eye; yes, the comments are not pleasant but one reads such things on the internet on a daily basis.
On the one hand I applaud a stand against this sort of idiocy, but a custodial sentence seems to be quite draconian.
As you know, Boadicea and I know next to nothing about Rugby Union, but when I found that the Wales-France match was on free-to-air, live, we had to watch it.
They had their chances, didn’t they?
We both thought that Wales had got the conversion after their try, but obviously they didn’t. Perhaps someone can explain why? It seemed to go between the two bits of wood and over the other bit, but perhaps our eyesight’s failing. Update after reading the sports journos – Ah! I now understand that the ball hit one of the bits of wood, so it doesn’t count.
Great shame, the crowd would have gone wild if they’d won. 😥
A quotation from a Telegraph blog by Michael Deacon (whoever he may be), which appealed to my antipodean sense of humour –
A classified ad, posted on Saturday in New Zealand. “For sale: sweet chariot. Fifteen careless owners. Guaranteed to carry you home sooner than expected.”
🙂
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