Best of Enemies: Whinging Poms Versus Arrogant Aussies

By Will 6 months ago Add your comment below

My old chum Patrick Kidd has written his first book, and it’s available to pre-order for the frankly disgustingly cheap £9.49. That’s under a tenner in today’s money - and less than 950 pence. Other currencies are available.

Don’t hesitate for one second: buy it immediately.

Product Description
One of the great rivalries in sport returns this summer, but what is it about a six-inch terracotta urn that en flames the passions of Poms and Aussies? Why do the English think that all Australians are alcoholic simpletons? Why do Australians think the English all have a stick up their backside? And why do they need (and needle) each other so much? In this humorous look at one of the truly great rivalries, written by “The Times’” cricket blogger and a professional Australian bar-room pontificator, the grudges, sledges, heroes and villains are laid bare.

About the Author
Patrick Kidd is a cricket and rowing writer who has been with The Times in London since 2001. He also writes for Wisden, Wisden Cricketer, and appears regularly on television and radio as a pundit.Peter McGuinness grew up being told that Poms were blokes from England who were never happy about anything. He now knows why. He writes a cricket blog.

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5 Responses to “Best of Enemies: Whinging Poms Versus Arrogant Aussies”

M Dawson wrote:
February 11th, 2009 at 11.41 pm

Yes Aussies are very arrogant and are now famous for their arrogance and that arrogance isn’t just restricted to cricket.

Aussies seem to feel they have a right to be rude and appear to hate many nations based on sport, this attitude is very childish and very ignorant , it really is time for Australians to grow up and join the adult world and try to understand what the word “sport” and “sporting” actually means.

The reality is Aussies do not have the right to be rude , you are not special in anyway shape or form , so get over yourselves , pull your heads in.

The last time this kind of arrogance showed it’s ugly head was pre 1939 in Nazi Germany and what happened then ??? learn the lessons .

brenton wrote:
March 14th, 2009 at 9.49 pm

wow the view of England looks much the same from way over here, I dont think you have the experiance of living as an australian in the UK.
truth is your words are a mirror to your comments ,Poms seem to reflect alot more on thier own history, love thier own voice, beieve they can do no wrong and think Australians invaded Australia.
I was sitting next to an Englisn friend whatching telivision when the indigenous boxer, Anthony Mundene threw a flag on a fire, my friend was happy and all for it, until he saw it a second time and relised it was not an Australian flag but a Union Jack.
this attitude and ignorance is shared mainly by the British press, when Kerry Packer changed cricket for good and for the better one of the critisims laid at him was that he was Australian
during the world cup of rugby I was amazed at the froth and bubble eminating from the British Press, you people have no Idea, the truth that the most influencial culture today is that from the south west United states hurts you and confuses you.
you are not the centre of the universe

Crystal wrote:
March 24th, 2009 at 11.31 pm

Arrogant Australians,

Yes Australians are getting a bad reputation around the world and in their homeland , Australians seem to think they have a right to be rude.
I get the impression that they are confused about free speech and what free speech actually means.
I have heard so many time from Aussies that their rude, arrogant and ignorant comments are all acceptable due to free speech.
Well Aussies are wrong , very wrong , free speech should be used in a mature manor , think before you speak and try to engage the brain .
There are many democracies far older than the Australian democracy where people have learned to understand how to speak freely without earning the reputation of Big Mouth as Aussies are now referred to

Peter McGuinness wrote:
March 25th, 2009 at 12.40 am

What a tremendously serious geo-anthropological discourse.

Very sobering indeed.

Yes, you chaps shall very much enjoy the orthodox academic chastisement of one culture to the other as outlined in this book.

It is - of course - standard intellectual procedure to base broad empircal societal and behavioural findings upon the conduct of cricket matches.

Hence the overwhelming demand for a study of this nature from lettered scholars at each end of Her Majesty’s Commonwealth.

Of course, an unintended outcome may be that it turns out to be a good natured piss-take, within which we manage to find some genuine appreciation for each other as the world’s first (and possibly last) lovers of Test cricket.

I hope not!

Entreaties to ‘lighten up’ really get on my goat. I’m with Barnes…

Garry (US) wrote:
June 6th, 2009 at 3.32 pm

I’ve become not only an admirer, but an actual lover of all things Australian, including all Aussie sports. I suggest there is a difference between being confident and arrogant, and I submit Aussies are extremely confident in their abilities and most proud of their culture. The confidence and pride was passed down by previous generations (rising from the depths of oppression tends to breed this). Look at any successful team in any sport, and you’ll find confidence that is almost to the point of arrogance. A team that is not confident will never succeed.

As for the POMs, being an American of 100% Irish heritage, don’t even get me started on that.

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