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- It's Official - England Will Lose The
Ashes<http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/TheMatchReferee/%7E3/47474832/its-officia\
l-england-will-lose-ashes.html>
Posted: 10 Nov 2006 02:00 AM CST Increasingly I am beginning to
develop a heartfelt hatred for systems that give a coach/manager of sporting
team ultimate control over the team's destiny. The Ancient Greeks really
were onto something when they dreamed up the system we now call democracy.
Power to the people, I say. At the very least, power to more than one
person.

England will lose The Ashes. Why you ask? Two words: Duncan Fletcher.

Fletcher is oft credited for the resurgence of English cricket. He
formed great partnerships with Nasser Hussein at

<http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5151/3681/1600/200_rickyponting.jpg>first,
then Michael Vaughan (unfortunately, his latest partnerships with
Strauss and Flintoff haven't paid off quite as richly). He was responsible
for fostering an attitude where all individuals play for each other, for the
collective. He taught the Poms how to be absolutely ruthless and clinical
when the opposition was down (epitomised by the cold response to Ricky
Ponting's flowing wound during the last series).

For all the good he did, somewhere along the line, he grew comfortable
in his surroundings. Fletcher started giving the impression that he knew
exactly what to do to make his side win a match. Part of his strategy
revolved around sticking, through hell or high water, with a core set of
players. Cricketers that had been through the tough times and proven
themselves to be good "team-men".

This strategy will pay rich dividends if.....
- Innocent Shoaib Slaps
Woolmer<http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/TheMatchReferee/%7E3/47358820/innocent-\
shoaib-slaps-woolmer.html>
Posted: 09 Nov 2006 08:48 AM CST It seems there might not be much
truth to any either of the proclamations in the title. After his

conviction<http://thematchreferee.blogspot.com/2006/11/doping-scandal-injustice-\
for-shoaib.html>for
doping, Shoaib Akhtar is on the PR trail to gain support/sympathy and
try and convince the more gullible members of the public, if not the people
who matter, that he is not a drug cheat and has "done nothing wrong."

Akhtar's appeal is unlikely to be overturned, for if....


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