Apparently, we are all to become New Zealanders tomorrow.
It is an odd, unsettling thought, but for two hours tomorrow we will all become New Zealanders. As the Rugby World Cup finally reaches its climax…
Not being a rugby fan, I have only been aware in a detached way about what has been happening. However, this “anyone but the French” attitude tends to fly in the face of sportsmanship. I’m not sure who Jim White thinks he is to claim to speak for an entire nation, but he does not speak for me. I think I may put on my French rugby shirt tomorrow.
Let the best team win.
Quite and that is all that Jim White needed to say. If he is rooting for NZ, that’s fine. It is the use of the “we” that irked. I’ll be vaguely rooting for France, so the “we” doesn’t apply. Going by the comments to his piece, he is well off the mark 😉
Agreed. In games when i don’t have any real connection to either team i tend to go for the underdog. As the French have never won this, while NZ did in 87, I’ll probably be slightly in favour of them.
Not me. I’ve got a tenner on France.
France & the French are still well-hated across a large part of the S. Pacific.
Nuclear testing, and “Rainbow Warior” are well-remembered.
I’m no sports’ fan (see previous post-comments) but I’m hoping the A-B’s whitewash the froggies.
France knocked England out. New Zealand knocked Australia out. Any way to arrange it so they both lose?
I have the same dilema LR when Scotland has been chucked out of an international footy tournament and England stride on, do I wear my England shirt in solidarity with my English brothers or stubbornly wear my Scotland shirt as an FU to England?
PS: I wear my England shirt just to spite the fucking Scottish mafia. 🙂
“It is an odd, unsettling thought, but for two hours tomorrow we will all become New Zealanders. “
What do I have to do, and just how does it involve sheep? 😯
As far as I can gather there are more NZers playing for other national teams than all the All Blacks, who boast 15 Samoans and sundry Fijians and Tongans in their squad.
France have only Frenchmen.
So it’s not ‘We’re all New Zealanders’, it’s ‘New Zealanders be anyone’.
Allez les bleus. Any team which organises itself with no regard for a useless manager (how French) is fine by me.
You jinxed them Mr. L…