Sour note
Australia’s reputation for being insular and ignorant of world affairs was confirmed at the Davis Cup tennis this week.
It’s beyond belief that we managed to play the wrong Spanish anthem.
It’s hard to imagine such a debacle happening anywhere else in the world.
Okay, at the Winter Olympics once the Austrian anthem was played instead of ours, but there’s no comparison between the Olympics and tennis when it comes to anthem playing.
The Davis Cup is a competition between two countries and organisers know for a long time in advance the teams that will be involved.
This disaster of diplomacy came less than a week after the Prime Minister disgraced us in presenting the rugby World Cup to England. He had a face like a sour lemon, as one newspaper correctly described it.
The wrong anthem played by trumpeter James Morrison was apparently one from Spain’s brief flirtation with a republic in the 1930s. It was about the most insulting tune that could have been played. If he’d accidentally trumpeted the national anthem of Swaziland everyone would have known it was a mistake. Instead the Spanish are thinking conspiracy and calculated snub.
In some respects it is funny. I love the headline in today’s Herald-Sun, quoting Morrison:
“I blew it, says trumpet star”
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