It never upset me because even if former coach Sven-Goran Eriksson was at one of our games, I presumed he waswatchingsomeone else and towards the end I never got the feeling he would pick me.
It seemed a perfectly reasonable point to her - and it suddenly struck me that if it seemed reasonable to someone who was well-educated and at least semi-literate in sport, then maybe there were millions of others watching and listening that day who had been equally perplexed by Australia's apparent carelessness.