Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Without wishing to take the heat off England's shortcomings, to be honest I think Australia need to take a long hard look at themselves and ask how, despite having a much superior bowling options and the series' best batsman by a country mile, they managed to be only an hour or so more play at Lord's away from losing the series.
As someone said on the Beeb website during the last test, Paine being told to stop the verbals showed the real Australia. As soon as they were winning again, all the new, gentlemanly Aus disappeared and they were back to being the scum they've increasingly become.