By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald ”Five Cronulla Sharks have received show cause notices.” The news sounds so anodyne, doesn’t it? Like they have just received something of a parking ticket from – if you believe most of the commentary in the public domain – those incompetent and ham-fisted brutes at ASADA. Just about nowhere […]
By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald The Bledisloe? I thought you’d never ask. As a matter of fact, I hoped you wouldn’t ask. But seeing as you have, let’s get to it. I predict, we’re going to lose, horribly. Disaster. CatastroFFe, with two ‘F’s for FAIL. It’ll end up 60-0 to them if we’re lucky,
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Peter FitzSimons revisits a story he wrote 20 years ago. By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald The ”Race of the Century” was 60 years ago on Thursday. But already we’re a little ahead of ourselves. For you see, a little over three months before that, our own great distance runner of the time, John Landy,
By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald Be wewy wewy quiet. I’m hunting wabbits. Well, at the very least, hunting Crusaders here in Christchurch, the home city of the champion team just about to leave for our own Sydney Town for the final of the Super Rugby on Saturday night at the Olympic Stadium. As if
By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald Ah, can’t you just feel the excitement? That wondrous buzz – coast to coast, to all ships at sea, and across the five continents – that a great sporting champion is about to make his long-awaited return to the main arena? Don’t we all just tingle with excitement, knowing
By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald Let’s have a look at other times in the history of sport, when the home team, in no less than a World Cup, has gone down by a margin where their opponent has scored SEVEN times the number of points/goals/tries than they have. No, I can’t think of any
By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald I know it. You know it. In recent times the great leap forward in contact sport in Australia has been taking the issue of concussion seriously. After years of embracing the culture whereby even after being knocked out, a real man plays on, and backs up next week, just in the
By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald Gawd, I wish I had written this brilliance, Oscar – in fact written by an unknown, but circulating on the net … “I just can’t get excited about a sporting event, where a government has spent millions funding it, yet people still live in squalor and deprivation. Where drugs
By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald Let’s talk about Jesus and sport. No, no, no, not about how Jesus was the most legendary fullback Jerusalem ever had, nor even how, in terms of comebacks – see the Resurrection – he even outdid Lazarus. I don’t even want to focus on the ludicrously pompous tendency of
By Peter FitzSimons, Sydney Morning Herald Well knock me over with a feather. The decision to award Qatar the World Cup in 2022 was corrupt, you say? How do you know when Sepp Blatter is telling porkies and covering up FIFA atrocities? His lips are moving. So when even he says the whole thing was
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