The fascination is gruesome, morally dubious but endlessly fascinating. You keep watching, but are you cheering for the competitors or for the curse?
On Monday, England play in a major football championship final. On Wednesday, NSW try to win an Origin decider in Brisbane. From Thursday, Rory McIlroy tees up in the British Open. Macbeth’s witches will have to charge for overtime.
The Blues in Origin haven’t really choked, have they? Not in the sense of the Broncos in the 2015 grand final, Parramatta in 2001 or the Dragons in 1999. It’s more that the Blues have kept on losing, which is not choking until it becomes such a pattern that it sweats itself into the fabric and winning becomes not just a habit but an inevitability. Which is why it’s sometimes puzzling when the Blues place such emphasis on their “history” and their “culture”.
A 95th-minute escape from Slovakia. Penalties against the might of … Switzerland? Beating the Netherlands thanks to a refereeing decision that even Gary Neville called an “absolute disgrace”. This is decidedly un-English, and has the whiff of a curse being lifted.
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