Not With My Goddamn Thunder

Ethan Switch - Friday, 28 November, 2003 - 20:18:38 - print it raw

There was a chance that the biggest resignation of the week would have been Steve Waugh's decision to thrown it in as the captain and player of the Australian Cricket team in the upcoming Test Series against India in Sydney. With all the flurry of media and wondering whether or not Cricket Australia pushed him into the decision, along comes Simon Crean to put his own lights out as the Federal Leader of the Opposition.

Waugh seemed to have had the support of a lot of people from both sides yet it appears he just didn't want to spend any more time away from his family. Throwing up another tenuous link between sports and politics—as a model of sorts for the fighting spirit of a loser or gloating will of a champion—the diminishing returns of loyalty steadily disappeared the longer Crean was helming the rocky road of impotence that comes from the Shadows.

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