You hold in your hand a passport to relationship success. You hold in your hand a ticket to the next two rungs on the corporate ladder. In your hand rests slavish attention from interesting strangers at the next weekend barbecue. You are now clinging tightly to the key to letting sunshine into your often bleak winters. How so? Australians are obsessed with sport. We live in a country where space, climate and the elements have conspired over the years to have us, well some of us, run about outside chasing and kicking things and each other. By and large, we are a physical people. And, brilliantly, with the current wall-to-wall television coverage of sport, we can also get our exercise by pushing the button of a remote control from the safety of the lounge. And it is the four major football codes that have us most obsessed; that personify our Australian-ness, yet also challenge the unity of our sports church. In summer, from Darwin to the Derwent, from Sydney to Subiaco, we all smear green-and-gold zinc on our dials and bellow for another pounding of English cricketers. We are as one. Yet in winter, our tribal nature emerges, like so much sun-deprived pale skin. Not only do we clan up to support our own team, we embrace a single code of footy and build a wall to keep out the invading enemy hordes. In recent years, though, blinkers have begun to drop from our eyes and exposure to all codes has resulted, as they continue to build national footprints. And so it is that even passionate fans can find themselves watching games featuring Lions, Dragons, Storms, Forces, Hurricanes, Jets, Mariners, Crusaders, Bulldogs, Swans, Magpies, Highlanders, Broncos and Glory, and struggle to work out who is running stupidly fast into whom. It can be confusing. Imagine, then, the despair of the partner to the rabid sports fan. Imagine the nervous rash emerging on the aspiring business partner invited to the corporate box to watch a game she's never understood. We have moved on from a mono-codal culture. Many people in this country are now unashamedly bi-codal. This book will help you to become so much more poly-codal.