FIFASanz said:Cricket World Cup or FIFA World Cup ?
Yeah, why don't we open it up, to include the cricket world cup then. Still footy WC for me mind you.FaaipDeOiad said:A better question might be: cricket world cup or football world cup, and in that case, I'd probably have to lean towards cricket, but only just.
I suspect most English cricket fans would take The Ashes ahead of the OD WC. Test cricket is definitely seen as the be-all & end-all over here & The Ashes is v much the blue ribbon event.FaaipDeOiad said:Generally the Ashes is more significant to Australia, but you have to consider that the WC is inclusive of every team in the world, while the Ashes is just England. Beating everyone in the world at football is always going to be more significant than beating England at cricket.
A better question might be: cricket world cup or football world cup, and in that case, I'd probably have to lean towards cricket, but only just.
DefinitelyBoyBrumby said:I suspect most English cricket fans would take The Ashes ahead of the OD WC. Test cricket is definitely seen as the be-all & end-all over here & The Ashes is v much the blue ribbon event.
Not for me. I put club first.Barney Rubble said:Football World Cup >>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything else.
Yeah but I'd be willing to say for most of the 90s up until Australia lost the Ashes, many Australian cricket fans (obviously not all and maybe not most, but a lot) would have seen winning the World Cup as the pinnacle, even though it was only ODI cricket. The 1999 WC win was massive, particularly considering the loss in the 1996 WC final. The fact that Australia comfortably held the Ashes from the 90s to 2006 probably made it fall a little in value of importance.BoyBrumby said:I suspect most English cricket fans would take The Ashes ahead of the OD WC. Test cricket is definitely seen as the be-all & end-all over here & The Ashes is v much the blue ribbon event.
Hmmm. I guess some of our older posters do know what it's like for us to win the Wc, perhaps they can shed some light on this matterJono said:Do I dare say for those English fans that have selected the FIFA WC over the Ashes, their opinion may have been different had England not won the Ashes in 2005, and had England won the FIFA WC in 2002? Obviously this is an assumption, but is something you've never experienced and always wanted to worth more than something that you always wanted to and recently have?
Test cricket is certainly more significant here too, but The Ashes is only England, after all.BoyBrumby said:I suspect most English cricket fans would take The Ashes ahead of the OD WC. Test cricket is definitely seen as the be-all & end-all over here & The Ashes is v much the blue ribbon event.