sidelined

Snipped from The Grauniad.
Chabal … last night … hot funk … how could you!
I think I’ve had that dream

I was there four years ago, way up on high at Telstra Stadium ,when Jonny Wilkinson in an act of unrivaled sporting cruelty tore the heart of Australia and denied us a World Cup on home soil.
Last night, Wilkinson (and a committed English team) again denied Australia a chance at glory in the Marshal [...]

Thanks to Patrick in comments for the YouTube. It’s yawnion with the private school boys and other boring bits cut out, and the bits where sweaty men clamber over each other and Kiwis get bones broken left in.

And he’s a linguistic patriot!
Although …. watching some other vids even I can see he [...]

The Alliance Française office in Clarence St, Sydney has this rather half-hearted Marshal Petain World Cup display in their window.

But I got a bit of whiplash the other day, eyeballing it as I sped past on the bus. On account of the fine specimen of Gallic flesh which dominates the centre of le tableaux du [...]

Group B
Australia
Should win: Bolster rah rah sense of entitlement and superiority. It is the way of the universe. Can’t fight it.
Shouldn’t win: Oh, I couldn’t cope.
Wiki says: Mark Champion. No, seriously that’s what came up.
You heard it here first.
Wales
Should win: The accents – so cute! The singing. The accents.
Shouldn’t win: “The Prince [...]

With the Marshal Petain cup due to get underway, some of the Aussies players may have a tough time in France with the local language. As a service to our brave Wallabies I’ve put together a collection of handy phrases (Using Babel Fish) in the guise of a typical conversation.
Bonjour. Mon nom est Lote
Et [...]

The Marshal Petain Cup (trading as IRB Rugby World Cup 2007) gets under way this week so its time to preview where the teams stand. In addition to the technical insight, I added an extra diagnostic tool: Wikipedia. From the team page, I pressed “random article” and let the Wiki lead me [...]

to the Joey grand scandale.
No more Wallabies training sessions. I died a little everytime I saw Him at one of those on TV.