Credit where it's due.

Remember Headingley 1981 - 3rd test against Australia? For those who don't, Australia batted first and made 401-9 declared. They then bowled out England for 174 and enforced the follow-on. England made a better fist of it in the second innings (mainly thanks to Botham) and made 356, but this left Australia with only 129 to get to win. But we bowled them out for only 111 for a famous victory. As I recall, everybody was saying "Well done England" and not "How could Australia have lost - they were rubbish". Now the reverse has happened in the second test over there, and is anyone saying "Well done Australia"? Are they buggery - no, it's all about how rubbish we were, losing from an apparently invincible position. We are a small-minded and self-centered race when it comes to sport, aren't we?