Tuesday 27 September 2005

Australian Fever Pitch??

Synced up and was reading the Sydney Morning Herald today and was very pleasantly surprised to see that the Sydney Swans have snagged the grand final ... Cup or whatever it is that they get when ty win the AFL. Feel partly responsible for their victory because my last Sunday in Oz was sppent at my first game (which the swans won) - the ending of a 72 year losing streak is pretty significant - it would have to comparible to the Boston Red Sox ending of the Curse of the Bambino - Also, I think it's high time that Australia produced a decent movie about sport - there hasn't been any for years and none about AFL since The Club decades ago (there was a dodgy one a few years back about race relations but I didn';t see it so it doesn't count) - there's already a story out there which has been run out twice to make a decent sports rom com - Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch - the first time was his semi-autobiographical account of the story leading up to the breaking of Arsenal's 20ish year drought and then the American version which put it against the backdrop of the Boston Red Sox winning the World Series Baseball - if it's been done twice, what harm can it do to make it three times?

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