I love the way that with sport, everyone claims certain victory before the game even begins. Take the cricket for example, not only is England playing its first test match of this series against Australia in a foreign country, but in reality we are as bad as the Americans. Now you may wonder what the Americans have to do with cricket and to be honest the answer to that would be, not a lot! However, we laugh that they can have competitions in North America and call them \u2018The World Series\u2019 but when England plays Australia we do the same sort of thing. If we beat them, we think that makes us the best in the world. Now let\u2019s be honest, we don\u2019t beat them all that often and when we do, we have been known to cling to those victories for many successive years of crushing defeats and say \u2018Oh, but do you remember the series of xxxx? We beat them then in such style.\u2019 Ok, so they\u2019ve been known to whitewash us since then, but for some reason those incidents didn\u2019t count. We say things like, \u2018We fielded a young team that year. It was part of our development.\u2019 Or \u2018Their pitches weren\u2019t up to it.\u2019 What we never say is, \u2018Let\u2019s be honest, they\u2019re better than us.\u2019 I have now, no doubt, brought down the wrath of all cricket fans throughout the country, including the ones in my own home, but you have to remember that I am a dog and we aren\u2019t allowed to play in the team. We occasionally are observed on the outfield, cocking our legs in protest, but never are we allowed to play this hallowed game. Ok, so I can\u2019t see how I\u2019d hold a bat and my bowling isn\u2019t up to much, either over-paw or under-paw, but I can run between the wickets and Shadow has offered to run off with the bails. We could at least be the team mascot. If you can play the England match in Wales, then you could at least have a Swiss Mountain Dog that was born in Belgium as the mascot!<\/p>\n
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