Consider this a pre-match warm-up, people.....

Time to rig an Aussie internet poll!

Follow the link below to rate England's performance on the Sydney Morning Herald web site.

Go to this link http://smh.com.au/polls/sport/form.html and vote that England were "Scintillating",

The Aussie Pomie bashing of "dull, dull, dull" has reduced from 52% to 42% (actually, I think it's down to 8% by now!!!) of the votes already! If we can make "Scintillating" the top rating then it's certainly going to confuse the Aussies.

The origin of the term of abuse 'Pommie' was

Prisoners
Of the
Motherland

but it somehow it became attached to us Brits!

Another proud moment in our history!

I believe that the original spelling is 'pohmie', meaning, "prisoner of His/Her Majesty in exile".

Of course, the real poms are the Australians themselves, not us.