Australia beat England

OK, to be fair and balanced, "Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Winston Churchill, Henry Cooper, Margaret Thatcher, etc, our boys took one HELL of a beating."

I flew back from holiday last night so I am only just catching up on the story and Kevin Pietersen's rather odd comments. How on earth he felt it was sensible to talk of "humiliating" Australia in a one-off game of hit and giggle, and how he could claim that it would be revenge for the 5-0 Ashes loss, is baffling. Didn't he learn from the CB Series win in January that Australia always bounce back after losing?

I believe that the more polite Australians would call Pietersen a "dill". But feel free to suggest other adjectives in the usual fashion. I can only apologise that we keep on picking this pillock. That said, Australia never let Shane Warne's Pietersenesque mouth blind them to his other skills.

Comments

[Peter McGuinness]

I must confess Patrick, there's certain Pom terminology that I really like.

'Pillock' for example.

I've no idea what it means after all these years, but it just SOUNDS so good when used in a sentence with the words 'Kevin' and 'Pietersen'.

All true about Warnie I'm afraid. But like Figjam, any 'twattery' (another Pommie favourite) is more or less negated by the quality cricketing performance.

Just as well they're both such good players, although it may be argued correctly that Figjam has some way to go before he is as impactful as Warne.

This is the problem with your 'keepers of late. All mouth, no talent. If you offer the gob, you must have the tools to back it up. Ask Nel. Otherwise instead of being a talented pillock, you are simply a garden variety pillock.

Oh yeah, the fact that we're discussing the word 'pillock' speaks volumes for the meaning of the so-called 'World Cup of Twenty20'.

Australia beat England. BIG DEAL. Anything could have happened. What a joke.

It makes Figjam's comments about avenging a 0-5 Ashes defeat by winning a game of Twenty20 even more embarrassing.

Then again, maybe I'm a pillock for not detecting his tongue in his cheek. KP hasn't got a great reputation for self-deprecation though has he?

Suggested alternate adjective: 'Halfas'.

Because if he was 'Half as good as he thought he was, he'd be twice as good as he is.'

Patrick, can you please tell me what a Pillock is? I think I'm about to be called one...