Australian cricket is in some pretty serious denial tonight. This is nothing new, but you’d think now would be a good time to just come clean and admit there are problems.Shit, even Obama could admit there were problems, and I think he had a bit more to lose.As a consequence of this denial, I’ve decided that they’re all - the officials and the players - a bit like doctors. This is in the sense that when something goes wrong they all band together in a showing of rampant elitism, pretending all’s well, and that we shouldn’t question them or their methods because they know best. But underneath the self-indulgent, egotistical collusion, ther... See the complete post here
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