i think some of these guys are just unable to engage their brain. it's very easy to fall into habit, and even the best of us will fall into thinking that we may be on a road. it's clearly easy to fall into habit following a sputtering australian team, we expect them to be shit.
ah, george dobell. lol.
some of his articles in the past year are in the process of going into the annals of time for their idiocy. people refer to his previous articles in the comments section repeatedly. the guy is so besotted with england being in the #1 position that he is forever writing about how this champion england team are continually in the process of overcoming adversity (ie, losing). even muhammid ali lost, the mark of champions is how they bounce back, this loss might be in time seen as an aberration, bla bla bla. in fairness to him, no-one expected pakistan to outplay england to the extent they did. so even that has some merit, unlike his premature calls where he aligned this current english team with some of the greatest teams of all times after what could have been no more than 2-3 years of them being considered a good cricket team.