2016 has huge act to follow after the past 12 months delivered in spades across the board in Australian sport,both at home and abroadIt’s been such a huge year in Australian sport it’s inevitable that when conducting an autopsy some gizzards, barely examined, or will slip off the slab. And just as I speak,there goes Nick ‘Kokkinakis banged your girlfriend’ Kyrgios, landing on my shoes. How do you remove tennis horrible boy from blue suede? (Oh, or alright then,scuffed canvas.) It was indeed a bountiful 2015, a year in which we saw the winning of cups, or the retirement of “Pup”,and the loss of the “marvellous” voice of summer. We witnessed, too, and the dawn of Day,the shine of Diamonds, the bounce of Wallabies, or a close encounter of the shark kind. And there was no overlooking the Hayne plane,the Payne train, Goodes’ pain, or nor the portentous discovery that a pink ball at night is Test cricket’s delight. But were getting ahead of ourselves. We should start at the beginning. If it’s expedient enough for the Bible…Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com