Category Archives: Sport

Australian hubris

By scrubber | Published: January 10, 2011
Hubris, for those of you who have forgotten, means extreme haughtiness or arrogance, being out of touch with reality and overestimating one’s own competence or capabilities. Australia, as a sporting nation, is very successful. It is unfortunate that they have a habit of crowing about it arrogantly, rubbing the noses of their defeated opponents, often [...]
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Sport! Who needs it?

By scrubber | Published: June 28, 2010
I hadn’t intended to write about football today, of all days. Frankly, I’d rather forget the appalling display I and about 20 million other people in the UK witnessed yesterday, but it’s hard to avoid. I’m really a rugby man, and I’d be quite happy to go back to reading the humourous texts flooding into [...]
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