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This is the Friends of History and Debating Society.

I'm John Bachelors, my guide on Australian cricket.

I've become something of a Homer because I read these stories every week.

Jeremy's train me, you know, you're leaning toward the Australia side.

However, it turns out I'm not just leaning toward the Australia side

because I'm a Homer.

It turns out that Australia is in the gun sites, target range, nightmares of England.

They cannot get over ashes. Jeremy, is this ordinary that England carries? It's not really a

grudge it's like a chip on its shoulder. What is it six months now I don't

remember how long it's been.

Oh, it's over. Well, actually, no, it is just six months, so I guess maybe for the brief six months is a short amount of time, but I, John, I've never seen in the history of the ashes that I've been alive for anyway that the Brits are carrying such a grudge and what we're now seeing is really that one of the British greats Graham Swan is saying that in fact Australia didn't really win the last dashes, it was actually the Brits' right one, but the problem was that one of their star

spin bowlers was too unworld of play.

But if he was in there, you know what, they would have won.

So really again, John, what we're seeing is this rhetoric where the UK is actually

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