New Year (Same Old Story?)

I've been away for Christmas and New Year. I couldn't manage to avoid hearing about England's abject performance in Melbourne, but I haven't been in a position to post anything about it until now, and everything that can be said has been said.

Now Sydney is almost upon us, and with Langer joining McGrath and Warne on the retirees' list there'll be more sickly emotion doing the rounds on Saturday than at a Chris de Burgh concert, circa 1986.

I think I can wait...