Sporting legends...

Is it just me or does everyone like sport more for the politics than the actual game?

I love the push and shove…the stories and the legends…

Mark is disgusted in the way I jumped off the soccer bandwagon as soon as the Socceroos were robbed…

But I have no choice…I can only get interested in sport when I’m familiar with the players….sport isn’t actually that interesting to me…it’s the players that I like.

The fact that Italy won the world cup on penalties…that’s why I’m interested in sport…

And there’s been some great sporting politics in Australia this week…

On Saturday night Andrew Johns scored enough points to be named highest point scorer in the history of the game…a fantastic feat.

All the talk though was about how he had snubbed the ceremony organised to honour the event…why…because his milestone came in a match where his beloved knights were humiliated by Parramatta…

There’s a lot of ranting about bad sportsmanship…but I get it….Andrew Johns wouldn’t be the player he is without passion for his team…

And also in Rugby League…


Did you hear the one about the Wally Lewis medal winner at the State of Origin last week..

The Wally Lewis medal is awarded to the player of the series…

Apparently, with ten minutes to go, when it seemed Queensland was going to be beaten AGAIN..King Wally was handed an envelope with the winners name…
Then, out of the blue, Darren Lockyer snatched a try which snatched the game and the series…and a female official came running at Wally with a new envelope…I guess we’ll never know which blue got robbed at the eleventh hour…