“We’ve got three dollars to the pound,” used to be one of the songs favoured by England’s Barmy Army cricket fans on their tours to Australia. The slur on Australia’s sliding currency, sometimes dubbed the Aussie peso, was one of the few ways they could get back at their hosts, who regularly thrashed them on the field.
The Aussie dollar is claiming back lost ground but against a rise in English sporting stock. For Sydney has just seen a rare breed of Englishman emerge – a world champion sports team.
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