The nation is fast becoming a green-and-gold-tinged emotional mess, but it’s also creating an awkward dilemma for a million British expats living here.
Walking through Adelaide Airport with me after a dance competition this week, my 13-year-old daughter and her friend suddenly shrieked and went running off so fast I thought someone was chasing them.
Such is the utter frenzy currently whipping through Australia about the forthcoming FIFA Women’s World Cup semi-final against England that anything related to the Matildas is prime currency, with super-striker Kerr the darling of the nation., is fast becoming a green- and-gold-tinged emotional, excitable mess.
I may have been born and bred in Hampshire, but this week I watched in awe as the Australian team navigated their way through a see-sawing penalty shootout against the French with the might and nerve of warriors.and sealed their path to a first Women’s World Cup semi-final they shook off years of sexism and ridicule from what is often a macho-skewed sporting culture.
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