The current Cricket World Cup and Shane Warne have a lot of things in common. They are not just dour, bloated and un-interesting but also given obsession like coverage by the Australian media, and in particular my good friends at Channel 9.
Never before has a match been so pointless, aimless and of no real interest to the general public and subsequently given so much TV coverage and column inches than this! (And the Cricket World Cup is pretty un-inspiring as well.)
Whilst we are all no doubt moderately pleased that serial "boy-about-town" Warney has a new love interest the coverage given by the local media is akin to that only reserved for poor unfortunates within the Royal family. The fact that they also both seem to tweet a “blow-by-blow” account of their romance just makes it more bizarre and newsworthy for the Australian media and appalling for the rest of us.
The same media have now finally found some proper news to cover with the Christchurch earthquake and have decided to leave Warney and his erstwhile partner in sleaze, Ricky Nixon, well alone. However I expect a new "twist" in the saga from Shane & Liz soon as they will be "heaps unhappy" that their personal media circus has found a more appropriate interest. (The shame on the faces of some of those very professional reporters who had to high-tail it down from Far-North Queensland to get the exclusive with the guys delivering Warnie's new mattress. Nuala Hafner you have my deepest sympathy).
Warnie’s romance will only be remembered as the story that filled the papers between the Cyclone and the Earthquake and that it was one big hoax being played out by the protagonists for some, as yet undetermined but probably Liz’s fashion label, commercial gain. (Or was that Warne’s ex-missus commercial gain?!)
Warnie’s romance will only be remembered as the story that filled the papers between the Cyclone and the Earthquake and that it was one big hoax being played out by the protagonists for some, as yet undetermined but probably Liz’s fashion label, commercial gain. (Or was that Warne’s ex-missus commercial gain?!)
A rare photo of Shane Warne
The first month of the Cricket World Cup is no different. Too much media hype, too many superlatives being thrown around for no real reason and a generally disinterested audience. Only the games involving the home teams have had crowds exceeding the “very poor” and this tournament will not get remotely interesting until April is well within sight.
Last night the Bangers beat Ireland. Big news for the c.164m Bangladeshis on the planet, (and some spread-betting syndicates), but pretty much no-one else. Of the 42 matches held in the Group phase only 1 will be pivotal as to the composition of the last-eight, namely that between the Windies & the Bangers. The rest are simply mere warm-up games. It’s all a big money making farce (Cricket World Cup not Warney this time) and no doubt the poor people of the host nations will vote with their feet for the meaningless games played between foreign countries....my God...it’s the Commonwealth games all over again!!.....which were last held prior to India in...You guessed it, MELBOURNE.
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