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Australia and England’s sporting rivalry began on a cricket field almost 150 years ago and has spread its tentacles into every other field, court, ground and arena imaginable. So this week feels like a fitting entree for the men’s Ashes series that will dominate the summer sporting scene. In the space of five days, the two nations will do battle across three different football codes: women’s soccer, men’s rugby league and men’s rugby union. As far as we can tell, it’s unprecedented; never before has there been so many opportunities for one-upmanship, between the so-called “mother country” and the antipodean upstarts, squeezed together in such a short space of time.
