Let’s not discuss how I feel about having stayed up for all the Ashes matches, with a new baby (having manly volunteered to do the night feeds). Instead, I draw your attention to the most sensible diagnosis of our lamentable failings in Australia, from Matthew syed in the Times.
Those who believed that England’s victory in the summer of 2005 was a herald of things to come ignored every long-term indicator. They hymned Fletcher’s genius in the same exaggerated terms in which they are now castigating England and calling for the coach’s head. They could not distinguish a blip from a trend if it was set on fire and encased in an urn.
This could almost have been written by an economist.
