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I always look for their results first. In the Olympics Australia are the one county I get the most pleasure when GB finish above them. I don't even like cricket but love it when we win the Ashes as it annoys the Aussies so much.
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Ta, you proved my point. hippy is always right.
It's the same for us. I was brought up such that anyone other than Britain winning is good. Except maybe NZ :P I can't really explain it, it's not seriously malicious or anything it's just like Melbourne is better than Sydney. It's just one of those things.
hippy
It really isn't. Other than cricket there's nothing the nations really compete at is there? Aus used to Win some bike riding before GB started trying and we had one year where we won the hand-egg, but that's all I can think of.
Apparently Germans feel like this about the English football team. We reckon they're our great rivals but they have no sense of it the other way round.