What a year!

Sport, someone once noted, is “Shakespeare on steroids,” and let this year be the exemplar; the proof potion of the notion. It had drama, shocks, magnificence, unexpected plot twists, inspiration, perspiration, pathos, bathos, derring-do and ... outright tragedy. By and large it absorbed us and, at its best – like the Socceroos at the World Cup – witnessed that increasingly rare phenomenon of much of the nation leaning forward, at least a little, at much the same time.

No, it didn’t deliver a moment akin to the America’s Cup win of 1983, a forever-after reference point for most Australians who celebrated it. And it might have been a little light on for compelling characters arising to warm the cockles of our collective soul. But still, there were things we will long remember – not all of them good, but some were the good, the bad, the ugly, the tragic and the magic.

Thank you, sincerely, for your readership. Roll tape.

Ahem. That would be mine, written the day after the opening round of the NRL season:

I’m calling it now. Penrith will go back-to-back, and win their second successive NRL premiership this year.

Oh sure, sneer unpleasantly.

Trot out your “Kiss of Death” lines.

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Sporting theatre of 2022 a case of Shakespeare on steroids

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25.12.2022

What a year!

Sport, someone once noted, is “Shakespeare on steroids,” and let this year be the exemplar; the proof potion of the notion. It had drama, shocks, magnificence, unexpected plot twists, inspiration, perspiration, pathos, bathos, derring-do and ... outright tragedy. By and large it absorbed us........

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