Yeah like the nation's footballing hero is thicko Rooney and i wouldn't let Big Sam train my dog leta lone a football team. These olympians can't be real sports men and women for you don't see them chomping on gum, they don't swear and spit all the time. They aren't accused of racism. They aren't in the ref's or umpire's or judge's face all of the time. Could Joey Barton ever be an Olympian? Football needs to take a long hard look at itself and then sort out how it is going to change to become something that we fans can take pride in. Can football ever beome a sport again?
Godders, are you taking the piss? What you're saying is so stupid I genuinely can't tell if you're on the wind up.
And Fuhrer Godders made a comment about footballers being bad people because they spit (alongside having haircuts and tattoos)
So when you choose examples you choose - an Olympic Gold Medallist, and someone who most of the country don't take pride in watching. If we're talking people who put their bodies on the line and give their all - there are far better examples. Rooney the footballing hero? Says who? The media. I don't like the bloke at all. I hold others in far greater regard. Athletics and the like isn't all clean and lovely. Chambers is a disgrace. Ohuruogu you could say the same of. I think Godders has been at the bottle.
Yes and to a decent standard. For my school and then my town and until I was nearly 40. So what is your point? My point is that your average footballer is an ignorant ill educated oaf as are the people who run football clubs. Prove me wrong.
No,it's not that.The thing that I can't understand is your opinion on spitting...what's wrong with spitting when you've been running around playing football? Didn't you ever get your mouth full of sticky spit that needs to be spat out?
That's not a point, that's an observation. What is your actual point - why are you saying they're ill educated? Does it make them worse people? Does it make football worse as a sport?
So what about all the drug cheats in athletics? How many times have we seen a champion had their medals stripped due to taking banned substances? What about the debates over certain competitors genders and whether they are really who they say they are?
hey if you want ill educated watch this video of double gold medalist ryan lochte [video=youtube;6dlyCTswYH0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dlyCTswYH0[/video]
They don't exist. Every single Olympian is as clean as a whistle, none of them have stupid haircuts or tattoos, none of them spit or swear and they're all University educated.
Generalization is great isn't it. Most of us are from Southampton, so most of us must be poor farmers. How the **** are we on the web?, haven't we got cow's to milk at 4am?.
Also, define what it takes to be a real sports man/woman. Someone who is the best in the world what they do? Someone who is intelligent/articulate as you previously suggested?
It's okay though because we're not like those footballers, all of whom have IQs of less than 80, stupid haircuts and tattoos (which make them bad people automatically)
Never understood why it took so long for the officials to decide if that South African runner was male or female,all they had to do was pull her/his pants down...
