English sport on the up?

I've been meaning to update about this for a while but hey, time is a scare commodity these days! The crowning achivement of English sport was nearly two weeks ago. We had, at least in my memory, the first time ever that our Football, Rugby and Cricket sides we all in action on the same day. (you can count Rugby League if you want but they are a Great Britain side and so don't really count!)

Football - England vs Argentina (3-2). Only a friendly people were saying, well....wow! What a game, both sides were well up for the win and in one of the best games i've seen England play we were losing 2-1 with 10 minutes to go. Up steps little Michael Owen and casually slots two goals to win the match. Amazing stuff, the crowd reacted like we'd won the world cup and to be honest if we play like that next year who knows.

Rugby - England vs Australia (26-16). Again 'only a friendly' but if you know about Rugby you know Eng/Aus is never friendly! I was apprehensive about this as we've not been great since winning the World Cup and this was a big game. Fair play to our chaps though the forwards played Aus out of the game and it looks as though we are back to some semblanse of normallity, nice to see Charlie getting some kicks for once too - only losing by 4 points to the All Blacks last Sat seemed to bear this out. Let's hope we can fare better at the 6 Nations this season.

Cricket - England vs Pakistan (0-1). Well the Saturday looked good with us taking 6 wickets and we had plenty of opportunity to win the game but a batting collapse on the final day meant we didn't even get a draw. Our batting has been atrocious at times on this tour and barely scrapping the draw in the second test this morning wasn't brilliant. Mind you from 20-4 it did look like we were going to lose the series, finally big Kev managed to find some form and along with Freddie they manged to save the draw. We must win the final match.

So basically what a day the 12th November was, three awesome games against quality opposition. Oh yeah the League boys beat the All Blacks too (38-12) but who cares about Rugby League anyway!