I am not sure if anyone has come up with this analogy before but – I think back to Day 2 at Perth.
It was I think like 1066 and the Battle of Hastings.
There was an unwarranted sniff of victory for the Poms mid-afternoon, the Anglo-Saxon shield wall broke and individual Poms chased the enemy down Senlac Hill.
Prematurely.
Within fifteen minutes the overbold were cut down, the battle was lost and slaughter ensued.
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Dr Wayne Peake was born in Sydney in 1960. He was educated at East Hills Boys High School, The University of Sydney and the University of Western Sydney. He began going to the Sydney races each Saturday in 1975, and on Wednesdays whenever he could sneak away from school sport. He was a successful punter (by his own estimation) until, co-incidentally, about the time he met his future wife, when his form began to taper off. He is still happily married to his ‘first selection’. He says: ‘there was never anywhere I would rather have been than at a racecourse, from Randwick to Murwillumbah and Broken Hill and anywhere in between. But I love a country race meeting best of all – the rougher the better. You can’t beat an Australian ‘picnic’ bush meeting, especially one that has a race ball before or after it.’
Good analogy. Still waiting for Ben Stokes to get an arrow (cricket ball?) in the eye.
The Dunkirk bulldog grit seems to have been replaced by the shambles of Suez.
The UK is historical artefact these days.