Once upon a time, many years ago, a little country at the bottom of the earth, called Australia, were champions of the World in pretty much every sport they played. As a proud member of the English Empire, it was no surprise that their favourite sports were generally those originated in the motherland and it followed that nothing gave them greater pleasure than beating this particular foe. Now at this time, it just so happened that England - recently relieved of their World Civilising duties in Africa and the Far East - were performing rather poorly in most of these sports and became justifiably disgruntled. Unfortunately many Australians, being the descendants of intelligence-free criminals mistook this disgruntlement as whinging, and thus the phrase Whinging Poms was born.

Times have changed a little since then and with the Aussies now regularly on the losing side (particularly in the rugby), it turns out they're not too bad at whinging themselves.

In the build up to the Rugby World Cup final, the Aussie newspapers had a bit of a moan at the apparent reliance of the England team on Johnny's boot (despite scoring more tries than the hosts). Unfortunately for them, they were proved right when said boot won the Webb Ellis Trophy for England in extra time.

Then, 18 years after stealing the Ashes, they finally agreed to give them back, but not before Ricky Ponting had a moan about the English use of substitues. Appears he was upset at being out-done on the gamesmanship front too - another area that Australia had dominated for many years.

Coming Soon - 101 Ways To Lose Badly, with contributions by many Great Australians.