(1602) Evening all.

 

20. Just how woeful England and Australia have become as nations

… just how far they have culturally sunk. The match itself? I extracted the only readable portion of some would be journo’s puff piece at the BBC:

“The fourth Ashes Test between Australia and England at the MCG was Test cricket cubism, the great game broken apart and stuck back together in abstract form, with a hint of Brydon Carse batting at number three. This is not a defence of the pitch which produced England’s first Test win in this country for almost 15 years and the second two-day Test of the series.

Leaving 10mm of grass on the surface, resulting in 36 wickets falling in less than six sessions, is not a fair contest between bat and ball. Not so much the Boxing Day Test, but the Boxing Days Test.”

The second para there is fair … the pitch was woeful, a lottery, it diminished both sides, faced with that awful spectacle, complete with snipers on the roof it seems. It was not cricket. England made fewer errors … well done … there was no sport, no art involved. In fact it was bizarre at a supposed premiere facility.

But it gets worse. The BBC puff piece, supposedly on cricket, went on about some sodomite singer in pink, whose ghastly uniform is preserved within the MCG members pavilion, so it seems. Somehow that has something to do with cricket.

Whole thing is awful.

19. Moosh corner

18. A word a day

17. England’s well kept canals

16. Steve at 1245 with war room

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