Now I get why so many Australians love the beautiful game.
Does anyone doubt that Australia’s sporting Everest of the year, and likely the decade, has just been reached? What is going to top it? What other sporting event will bring us together as a nation, all pulling for just the one team: our team?
Not ironically, telling it as the punch line of a joke about South American commentators, but feeling it ourselves, many of us for the first time.Ah, so this is what it’s about! It’s tribal. It’s fast. It’s furious. And when it works, it is fantastic to watch.Unstoppable ... England keeper Mary Earps is beaten by the Sam Kerr strike.
See, back in 1938, the great American actor/director/writer Orson Welles famously put to air a radio play so good and so realistic called War of the Worlds, that when it went to air, huge swathes of AmericaBefore this week, the closest thing Australia had to that was back in 2006 when Channel 10 had the rights to the AFL grand final between the Swans and the West Coast Eagles, and the pay-TV channel Fox Footy put on a replay of the 2005 grand final between the samesides at the same time.
Two dozen people in a pub with Barnaby and not one of them got a message from anyone which was completely out of sync with what was happening on their own screens? Frankly, it defies belief. And if not forand the Swans grand final win being replayed . . . I wouldn’t believe it. Actually, I still don’t think I do.’Fess up, Barnaby. What’s going on?Meantime, one of the Smarty-Pants commented on my column this week on the Matildas semi-final: “How good did the stadium look – what a facility.
“Nothing personal against our English friends, but a bet is a bet. Good luck Australia for the semi-finals!”
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