These Teams Are Not For Real...

Perhaps this is not the right time to be writing about sports, but I found an article in the guardian, too delicious to let go, so here it is.

It seems that in 2006, an advertisement agency ran a tourism campaign for Australia, with the header, "Where The Bloody Hell Are You?". There were complaints by the British, of course, but they were dismissed by the then Australian Sports Minister with suggestions that the British lacked a sense of humour.

Now, the Sun ran a campaign, comparing the 19 Gold Medals that England got with the 14 that the Australians notched up. Its header was "Where The Bloody Hell Were You", mocking  the earlier Australian Ad.

Of course, somebody has gone and complained that the advertisements could be seen by children and the offensive language would corrupt their innocent minds.

So The Sun advertisement has been handed out a ban.

But no such ban stops us from asking, here in India,  we would like to know from the Australian and English cricket teams, "Where The Bloody Hell Are You!".