August 2007 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31   Jul   Oct Home How to read the bettingBlog Suzy Fortune Glass Ozvillan Update Login Betting Blog is part of H&V.net   Mo, Aug 27, 2007 Ex-pats, failures and dimwits Jeremy Clarkson reckons that all ex-pats are  failures and dimwits, and whilst maybe I wouldn't generalise as much as someone trying to be controversial, I can't say that I completely disagree. 'in the whole of human history, nobody has ever woken up and thought, “I know. I have a wonderful family, lots of money, a great job and an active social life. I shall therefore move to Australia.”  Australia is where you go when you’ve made a mess of everything. That’s why the 1.3m Brits who live there are known as whingeing Poms. Because they’re all failures' Just in time then Australia has a quiz to try and weed a few out. I did it and - failure or no - I'm smarter than most of the locals it seems, getting either 18 or 19 out of 20, depending on whether they'd allow the correct national anthem words in the wrong order. The football season (A-League soccer that is) started this weekend, with Adelaide United drawing 2-2 in Brisbane. However I absolutely cannot get interested whilst the footy (Aussie Rules) season is still going and the Adelaide Crows are still in with a chance. A chance that is somewhat slimmer than last season, requiring a win in Melbourne next Friday against Collingwood to take the last finals place. It can be the greatest game to watch, with the speed and momentum of a soccer game but done more expansively. We were there on Saturday with over 46,000 others to see the Crows play Brisbane in the latest of their must-win games. Very very noisy, though the crowd suffers from having only the one song Adelaide clap-clap-clap, but a great win. Mark Ricciuto's last ever home game at Adelaide. Roooooooo!!!! Posted on 27/8/07; 4:12:09 PM from the Breaking Even dept. #  Discuss  Comment [0]
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