Sport
Somebody sent me a link to this by email: http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Englishman-wishes-Canada-would-apologize-for-win?urn=oly,224547 , a Canadian opinion piece regarding this in The Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/columnists/simon_barnes/article7041547.ece
This blog post forms my reply to that email, and my opinion on international sport in general.
Having read that article (on Yahoo sports) and the Times article he's talking about; I'm on Simon Barnes' side.
That kind of bullshit (Yahoo article) is exactly what I fucking hate about sport in general. Banging on about the fact that somebody who happens to be from 'your' country has won something- how pointless is that?
Morons thinking that because they share an arbitrary political region with somebody who on a certain day won a competition in skiing/football/wanking/whatever that means that they are good at anything, that 'they' have won and it makes them 'better' than somebody else.
It really is pathetic, especially considering that when *any* country's team wins something the people who shout "WOOO *WE* WON!!" the loudest are the people who sat on their fat arses the whole time watching it on TV! WTF has it got to do with you, arseholes? *YOU* DIDN'T WIN ANYTHING!
I personally don't give the faintest shit if nobody English ever wins any sport tournament or medal for the rest of time; its meaningless, it affects nothing. For the record, I similarly don't give a shit when 'we' do win something.
In fact, I would like Britain/England/whatever never to enter any sport tournament again, because it means I should never again hear endless streams of wankers proclaiming about how "they" won/lost and about how fucking important it all is. The Olympics, World Cup, Wimbledon, World Tiddlywinks Championship and all the rest of them can fuck right off, especially when the fucking government wades in and decides to spend MY fucking money on training athletes, broadcasting, building stadiums or whatever else so that they can all have a massive wank when somebody with the right miniature fucking flag on their shirt can win some fucking game one day. It's all such utter galloping bullshit and it gives me a headache.
Can't they spend all of the sport and Olympics money on building something useful, like perhaps motorways, 1Gbps internet connections, schools or 400mph maglev railways? How about not taxing us for it in the first place? Then maybe, just maybe we can 'win' at being a strong economy and then enjoy not only the stuff we've built but the riches and comforts we've all achieved using it, instead of 'winning' some meaningless fucking medals or trophies for playing games? Just a thought.
April 8th, 2010 - 17:42
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