We need to stop using a weasel word to describe sporting failures
We need to talk about the Australian sports world's word du jour: "disappointed".
Peter FitzSimons is an Australian journalist and author, based in Sydney. He is also a former Wallabies player.
We need to talk about the Australian sports world's word du jour: "disappointed".
Yes, yes, yes ... we all know that sport can be a wondrous lover, keeping you warm on cold nights, thrilling you to the very cockles of your soul, and romancing you on lazy summer days.
Sadly, by the by, on Thursday evening, just after the news on James Hird's hospitalisation after a suspected drug overdose, I came across this from 2007.
When I met Tomic the Tank Engine
In February, TFF received a huge response to my piece, having a go at Shane Warne for his outrageous remarks about Steve Waugh being "the most selfish cricketer I've ever played with"...
The news broke Monday morning. The former Newcastle Knights player Alex McKinnon, who has been left in a wheelchair for life because of an illegal tackle on him in 2014 – in a match against the Storm – has reportedly launched legal proceedings against the NRL and the player, Jordan McLean, who was tackler.
Minefield, anyone?
Bring it in tight you fat bastards.
This is the last bastion of the cultural cringe.
This was the year of thunder and wonder, the year of the fairytale for all those teams more associated with chunder and blunder. Which leaves us hoping for what in 2017?
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