Quoting andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>:
> Tomorrow's the true Test -
> leather against willow,
> Pom against Aussie.
>
> The crowd wears
> wattle green-and-yellow
> zinc cream on their noses
>
> while the 'Barmy Army'
> chants its soccer songs,
> playing away, confused
>
> by the upside-down order
> of things: water leaves
> antipodean sinks the wrong
>
> way,
Robert Graves once began an essay with the words:
In Australia, where water goes widdershins down the wastepipe...
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