England's defeats

This blog generally ignores sport but notes that successes in the sporting arena have a positive effect on a nation's morale and presumes the opposite can therefore prove the case. Noting the disaster at Murrayfield on Saturday for England's rugby team and this headline on the latest cricketing disaster - 'England's Darkest Hour', linked here, I am force to make the observation that our sportsmen played like men betrayed and pre-defeated by their own rulers, which looking back to the events of last week, is indeed the case.