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"When it comes to sport, Australians are mad. Completely, irrationally insane. It's the closest thing we have to a culture. From Don Bradman's singular focus to Steven Bradbury's heroic not falling over, sport has shaped our sense of self. But how did we get here? Part history, part social commentary and a lot of nonsense, Titus O'Reily, Australia's least insightful sports writer, explains. Covering Australian Rules, League, Union, soccer, cricket, the Olympics and much more, Titus tackles the big topics, like: How not to cheat the salary cap The importance of kicking people in the shins The many shortcomings of the English Titus takes you through the characters, the pub meetings, the endless acronyms, the corruption and the alarming number of footballers caught urinating in public. Sport is important - gloriously stupid, but important. To understand Australia you must understand its sporting history. With this guide you sort of, kind of, will."… (meer)
Titus O'Reily is a comedian of sorts specialising in Australian sport; luckily it is a subject of which there is much to make fun of.
All the major and semi-major sports in Australia are covered, giving their history, their relationships to gambling and corruption and why they became the sports they did.
While a number of typos found me gritting my teeth, the most interesting parts of A Thoroughly Unhelpful History of Australian Sport are learning that the great rugby league player Dally Messenger grew up playing Australian rules football and used the skills he picked up in Australian rules to revolutionise rugby league, and just how close Australian rules football came to becoming Australia's main winter sport in the early Twentieth Century. ( )
"When it comes to sport, Australians are mad. Completely, irrationally insane. It's the closest thing we have to a culture. From Don Bradman's singular focus to Steven Bradbury's heroic not falling over, sport has shaped our sense of self. But how did we get here? Part history, part social commentary and a lot of nonsense, Titus O'Reily, Australia's least insightful sports writer, explains. Covering Australian Rules, League, Union, soccer, cricket, the Olympics and much more, Titus tackles the big topics, like: How not to cheat the salary cap The importance of kicking people in the shins The many shortcomings of the English Titus takes you through the characters, the pub meetings, the endless acronyms, the corruption and the alarming number of footballers caught urinating in public. Sport is important - gloriously stupid, but important. To understand Australia you must understand its sporting history. With this guide you sort of, kind of, will."
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All the major and semi-major sports in Australia are covered, giving their history, their relationships to gambling and corruption and why they became the sports they did.
While a number of typos found me gritting my teeth, the most interesting parts of A Thoroughly Unhelpful History of Australian Sport are learning that the great rugby league player Dally Messenger grew up playing Australian rules football and used the skills he picked up in Australian rules to revolutionise rugby league, and just how close Australian rules football came to becoming Australia's main winter sport in the early Twentieth Century. (