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Piers Morgan will always have his delusional moral victory.
The English commentator was surprisingly subdued following England’s dramatic World Cup defeat at the hands of Spain on Sunday night.
The Lionesses were favourites to snap England’s 57-year World Cup drought, but will be leaving Australia with the anguish of knowing the trophy was right there for the taking.
It means Piers’ winter of colonial sporting woe boils down to Ashes failure, a Netball World Cup final loss to Australia and England’s shattering semi-final win over the Matildas.
He’ll always have that one win — and it seemed to be the one thing he was clinging to in the wake of the Lionesses’ crushing loss on Sunday.
Morgan was hooked by a tweet which bluntly pointed out England’s defeat.
The talk show host responded: “Thanks mate. On a positive note, we knocked out you Australians which actually means more to me than winning the World Cup.”
Taking a dip in the pool of Morgan’s misery was too delicious an opportunity for some fans to pass up — especially after the 58-year-old’s “classless” tweet celebrating the Matildas’ defeat.
It certainly didn’t help the sporting relations between the two countries when England cricket captain Ben Stoked also tweeted “Lol” following England’s victory over Australia.
It also didn’t help that England was accused of grubby tactics in physically attacking Sam Kerr during the Lionesses’ semi-final.
For now though, Piers and all of England are hurting – they hadn’t had a team make a World Cup final since their one and only success for the men’s team in the 1966 tournament.
Despite coming out well behind on the scoreboard, Morgan will always have his semi-final win over Australia to help him get to sleep at night.
“England’s fabulous Lionesses crush Australia’s wilting Matildas 3-1 in their own back yard to reach the Women’s World Cup Final … sweet revenge for the Jonny Bairstow Ashes runout debacle. Congrats ladies – you’ve made your country proud!” he wrote on Wednesday.
The tweet attracted plenty of backlash and saw Morgan cop it from all angles, but that wasn’t going to slow him down.
Australian cricketer David Warner stoked the fire the day before the match when he tweeted for the Matildas to “keep an eye out in case the Poms ask to change the ball”. A reference to the controversial fifth Test incident.
Morgan took his opportunity as he quoted the tweet with a brutal reply.
“No need mate, it kept its shape despite repeatedly whacking the back of Australia’s net,” he wrote.
For now, though, the 2023 Women’s World Cup is ending with Morgan getting exactly what was coming to him.
