Inspired by England FC doing what they do, as we all knew they would (if earlier than expected). Others?
I don't mean "X years without winning", like the Boston Red Sox, but things that happen again and again, and yet somehow in a different way, so the producers suck us back in at the box office for yet another sequel.
South Africa screwing up at the Cricket World Cup is a familiar one. The All Blacks managed to find five different ways to flop every four years, but now we can pretend that never happened.
There are those who always win, of course, like Kenyan steeplechasers, but the losers are more fun.
I don't mean "X years without winning", like the Boston Red Sox, but things that happen again and again, and yet somehow in a different way, so the producers suck us back in at the box office for yet another sequel.
South Africa screwing up at the Cricket World Cup is a familiar one. The All Blacks managed to find five different ways to flop every four years, but now we can pretend that never happened.
There are those who always win, of course, like Kenyan steeplechasers, but the losers are more fun.
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