No matter what the sport.. Australians are full of vitriol and arrogance..i’ve lived in this country long enough to witness it first hand in all types of sport.. the “win at all costs” attitude is even bred into the youngsters playing sport in the playgrounds and at school

Good for them, pity some of it hasn’t rubbed off on the lack of attitude of British sporting teams, but then don’t our schools teach that competition amongst children is wrong.
A few years ago I tried to coach football at our local primary school, they hadn’t won a match for years. Not surprising, the Head had a very ‘enlightened’ attitude to sport, that meant that girls, no matter how crap they were, had to be included in the team, also, when I did get the team on a winning streak, our school kid supporters weren’t allowed to boo and jeer the opposition, they were supposed to provide polite applause.
B#####s.
Now I wasn’t some nutter keen type parent either, I just let the kids get on and develop their own skills without any bullying, it worked, until the system let them down.
Similarly, I tried to coach cricket, a much neglected English school sport.
When the authorities found out that I was taking the kids up to our local pitch and making them face a hard ball, though a smaller, softer kids version, I was forced to hang around the playground and use a load of plastic rubbish, hardly the stuff that fast bowlers are made of is it.
My son had the potential to be a bloody good cricketer, but the school system and even the local team totally let him down.
Then there was swimming, but we won’t go in to that.
I gave up in the end.
Theres always been great rivalry and sledging between England and Australia at cricket, not surprising really, but both teams seemed to have accepted it as par for the course, there have been incidents, ie Lillees aluminium bat, but has that created animosity between them, I think not.
Get a bloody grip and return like for like you bloody monkeys, it’s all part of the modern game, gentlemen and players died out with the First World War.