Bob, you've obviously not been to a test match...
I was at the Oval yesterday and it was a fantastic atmosphere...a great game - full of tension. Me and the missus were next to a couple of builders who had just bought the tickets and were coming up to sell them to make a few bob, when they got there they thought 'oh sod it lets go in' and they really enjoyed it, they didn't have a clue what was going on - they just got slowly ratted and sung football and rugby songs all day...
The Aussies in the crowd and the players were gettting slaughtered and giving it back...especially Tait (who kept falling over), Mcgrath who said they'd win 5-0 - and kept getting this thrown back at him and Warne who had the '...you've dropped the Ashes...' sung to him for hours.
I tipped a can of Stella into the bag of some bloke in front of me (I was a bit worse for the weather) and there was no prob, apologies etc...anywhere else and we'd be swapping fists. Nearly everyone was out of their boxes, it was a great 10hour party... it was nice to celebrate something positive for a change, as mentioned earlier always good to get one over the Aussies.
Rugby - go backwards to go forwards - what's all that about...never understood that game.
P.S. - Crunchy - they have the Cricket world cup as well.
[Edited on 13-9-2005 by fatduke11111]