Are you a sportsman's wife? (This includes you, boys.) Well, come on then, be honest - you're dreadful, aren't you.
Foster doesn't like sport - and he's even less fond of sportsmen's wives as a species.
"I am generally deeply sceptical about how they came to be the partner of someone in public life and their motivations for being there," he says.
When he answered the phone on that Sunday morning, Foster thought it was a friend playing a prank. After accepting it was Simone Warne on the line, he says, "I told her that 90 per cent of sportsmen's wives are dreadful."
I'll cheerfully admit to being dreadful, but it's not because of whom I am married to!
Posted by: Scott Wickstein | 23 January 2006 at 14:27
Very true, Wicky. Some of us are just plain awful.
Posted by: Tony.T | 23 January 2006 at 14:30
On reflection, I AM marginally better than dreadful.
Posted by: Tony.T | 23 January 2006 at 14:32
Only when you've had your Weetbix.
Posted by: Scott Wickstein | 23 January 2006 at 17:28
I only eat copy-cat weetbix. The real ones scare me the way they radiate a strange light when Brett Lee breaks them.
Posted by: Tony.T | 23 January 2006 at 18:01
I have some real Weet-Bix at home but I think I prefer Vita Brits. I'm concerned about some of the blokes, namely James Hird & George Gregan, who eat Weet-Bix. They're on the down hill slide.
Posted by: Anthony from Chippendale | 23 January 2006 at 19:39
The Brownlow Count is evidence to support the man's theory, but the simple fact that we are reading about Simone Warne's private life, contradicts what the man says about her.
Posted by: Brownie | 23 January 2006 at 20:31
Am I a sportsman's wife? Well, no I'm not. But that's a very good question. After all, ... I COULD HAVE BEEN! Anybody could be.
But how on earth did you get the idea to ask it?
Posted by: TimT | 24 January 2006 at 00:45
It's probably true. Just look at their husbands.
Posted by: david Tiley | 24 January 2006 at 22:58
That goes without saying, David:
Read on.
Posted by: Tony.T | 25 January 2006 at 14:27
Posted by: carneagles | 25 January 2006 at 14:39
That's about eight more touches than he got on GF day 2002.
Posted by: Tony.T | 25 January 2006 at 14:41
Yes, perhaps "consistent Grand Final performer" might have been more appropriate.
Posted by: carneagles | 25 January 2006 at 14:45
Yep. And then you realise that The Pinks wouldn't have even made the GF without him. Funny how these things work out.
Posted by: Tony.T | 25 January 2006 at 14:50