Yes I know this is a cricket blog but sometimes you just can’t ignore the big sporting story of the day. And that was England’s defeat to South Africa in the rugby World Cup final in Japan. It was a big defeat I’m afraid. Eddie Jones’s team were thoroughly outplayed and there can be no complaints. It’s not like we lost on some inexplicable rule like the number of turnovers or least number of knock ons. South Africa were ahead in every single department. I...
Have Our Cricketers Ever Been This Bad?
I sat down last night to watch England waltz into the quarterfinals of Euro 2016. We were playing against Iceland, a country populated by 300,000 humans, half a dozen walruses, and zero professional football clubs. It should have been a walk in the park. What I witnessed, however, was probably the worst performance I’ve ever seen by an England team at any sport. It was laughably bad. Wayne Rooney, the country’s leading goal-scorer of all time, looked like some bloke Roy Hodgson had spotted...
