LONDON: Try as they might, the supposed super powers of football cannot make history bend to their whim. That message was writ large when England, so sure they could still lord it over any eleven from Down Under, contrived to lose to Australia in London.
Getting thrashed by the Aussies at cricket and tennis is part of England's sporting culture. Inviting 88 nations to tune in to live television coverage of a football encounter on Wednesday in which England switched teams at half time like the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace and lost, 3-1, was a perverse act of self-mockery.
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