(01-21-2019, 09:37 PM)madbluboy link Wrote:I've lost count of the amount of times I've heard them referred to as un-Australian.
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/rudd...e70dd555e7
"PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has been voted the Un-Australian of the Year 2008, for acting as a perfect gentleman in a New York strip club....
Also making the Zoo Weekly list were Lleyton Hewitt for whingeing, captain of the stranded oil tanker the Pasha Bulker, and Shane Warne for bagging his former team mates.
The Sydney Cricket Ground was also named for serving only mid-strength beer."
On a serious note.
We had a bit of a golden age of sport through the 50's and 60s.
Standards of behaviour were set that subsequent generations of players found it difficult to emulate.
Maybe they weren't as 'golden haired' as we thought but the media coverage was way more limited back then.
It's why we found the on-court behaviour of US players like McEnroe and Connors a bit distasteful although we admired their Tennis skills.
We didn't like it when some of our own, like Hewitt, went down a similar path.