Great Britain v Australia - 15/11/03 by Nick Quantrill

Wow, this was sport! I'm not normally a huge fan of rugby league. My interest in playing the game ended when I lost a front tooth in a school 'friendly'. Nowadays, I tend to favour games in which you can predict the bounce of the ball. This game was special though; huge even, and what's more, it was being played in Hull by a Great Britain team (well, more like an M62 corridor select team) needing a victory to stay alive in the best of three series.

So, off I set to the KC stadium with my mates, a reasonable grasp on the rules of the game and a chip on my shoulder for being born more of a Hull Kingston Rovers supporter than a Hull FC supporter. The atmosphere inside the stadium was something else with the noise generated louder than LA's on a Saturday night.

The game itself was fantastic. Although concepts like 'offside', 'double movement' and 'head and feed' were clearly constructed to baffle me, even I could tell the Australians were enjoying more than their fair share of decisions from the referee. When I looked in the programme (not mine of course, £5!!), I noted the referee was in fact Australian. Can you believe it?! No matter, Great Britain valiantly battled against the 14 men of Australia and with the scores level with three minutes to play, they still had a chance of snatching the game. It wasn't to be though as the Australians got the required drop goal and it was game over.

I'm sure you all know that Great Britain lost 23-20, but if not check out our supposedly elders and betters website, The Dull Dreary Fail Website. In a world where they report a Hull City defeat with the Saturday night headline 'Tigers come from behind to win'*, you might just convince yourself Great Britain actually beat the Australians at their own game. If not, there is always Saturday and the even more bizarre game of Rugby Union to come!

Links Guardian Unlimited Website - Wilkinson leads England to glory

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