The POM cricket team are 'wombles'
Never noted for understatement, Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper has found a new term for England's Ashes cricket team: Wombles.
"ENGLAND’S bunch of Wombles had to face up to a nightmare Ashes scoreline last night — two Tests down, just three to play.
After seeing his men somehow blow the Second Test, skipper Andrew Flintoff said: “I never want to feel like this again.”
Freddie and his men gave a second innings display about as menacing as Great Uncle Bulgaria and Co as they lost nine wickets for 60 runs in a dire six-wicket defeat.
And the Ashes, won so spectacularly last year, have effectively now been surrendered. "
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