Dominic Sandbrook

And as Australian historians have actually done lots of work in showing, they're not always the most...

admirable adverts for australian virtues you know tom i like australia a lot we've been there on tour i'm a big fan of australia and australians and indeed new zealanders but actually in cairo these blokes don't bring great credit on the cairo yeah

They don't make great credit on the Australian flag.

There's a lot of fighting.

There's a lot of drunkenness.

There's a lot of looting.

There's a lot of sexual misbehaviour.

There's allegations of rape.

Two out of ten of these blokes at some point get venereal disease.

And in fact, there is a thing that's apparently very well known in Australia called the Battle of the Wazza.

What's that?

This is when they run amok on Good Friday because they've all got VD from the ladies of the night, Egyptian ladies of the night.

And they run amok through the brothels of Cairo trying to locate the women who they think have given them the clap, basically.

And there's a huge, there's a massive riot, basically, as they run amok.

Anyway.

It's all about mateship.

Yeah.

So they could not be in a better condition.

They're ready to have a crack at the Turk.

Take on the Turk.