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"If they [England] keep losing series, and winning dead rubbers, then I think Australia will thrash them. They will wipe the floor with them."
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Oct 7, 2008

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Back to where we belong

By Will last year, at the end of December, CommentsBack+to+where+we+belong2007-12-22+14%3A09%3A22Will

Well that was brief and relatively painless, like a plaster being ripped off. But have a look at the scar!

England are back to where we belong. We’ve bullshitted our way to obscurity since winning the Ashes, and no amount of excuses about player unavailabilty can paper over the cracks which, in Sri Lanka, widened to cavernous proportions. This is a new era, certainly, but it reeks of the 1990s. Welcome back, England.

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