£8.50, and I know that they lost the contracts to all of the stadia outside of London, except the last 4 days of the Millennium in Cardiff. They made an absolute ****ing shambles of it though, telling staff from Cardiff not to come into work, while driving a bus full of Manchurians down, putting them in a hotel in Bristol, and putting them into work instead.
yes the first half of the charity shield should re iterate my point...scummy chelsea players behaving like it was not a red..and as for the fans
Spurlock and all I know it's off the subject but I totally forgot it was playing today. I see City won it after coming back from behind. A lot of yellows and a red too.
my point is that the feel good factor the Olympics did create soon disapears when we return to our bread and butter as football fans and we start to see the petty behaviour of overpaid idiots as opposed to the Olympians who display the utmost positive sportsmanship....i need to work on my back handed compliments.
Well said mate - one of the delights of the last 2 weeks has been the refreshing sportsmanship and fantastic commitment of athletes to achieve the most they possibly can from their abilities. While looking fwd to the new season, some of those petulant prima donnas who grace our grounds will be increasingly hard to accept. The feel good factor may well dissipate but I have a feeling (and hope) that the comparisons with our Olympic heroes will last a while longer. You never know, an improvement in attitude might actually be a legacy!!
The feel good factor of the Olympics will go when people remember they're out of work and the country is now an extra £12bn in debt, with a bunch of white elephants cluttering the landscape.
Gotcha now Spurlock. I was talking to a Geordie last week in the south of France who said "Ah cannut watch twenty two ower paid ****tahs kicking a baal aboot." I had to laugh. The Olympians are much more mature.
What would improve this closing ceremony is Levy arriving in one of those taxi's with 3 strikers and a new playmaker all singing 'we are tottenham'
What a ceremony,the best I've seen and some thought that we'd make a hash of these Olympics.....what crap.
Even better than Sidney as London is a true Global and more magnificent city. My fav bits on the closing show Russell Brand doing "I am the Walrus" Liam doing Wonderwall The Mods with "Tommy" Kaiser Chiefs Eric Idle "bright side of life" Bowie and fashion " I couldn't understand the merit of Victoria Beckham getting a mention" The Greek, Hellenic national anthem , well they did invent it. The John Lennon face was a triumph.
I really enjoyed the opening ceremony when I didn't expect to but I thought the closing ceremony was all a bit thrown together. Nothing was tied in anyway to the next thing, it felt like someone had their iPod on shuffle. As for the individual bits, I detest Russell Brand and had no idea why he was there and I had no idea why the ceremony turned into Jessie J featuring Britain. Someone somewhere has decided in the last year or so that she is the most talented person in Britain and should be involved in everything. I really don't think she's very good, she sounds like she's sitting on a washing machine the way she warbles on every note. What song were Muse playing? I'd never heard it before, they should've just played the famous one everyone knows. Finally, I wish George Michael had stuck around and driven one of the taxis the Spice Girls were in, might've saved us those 3 minutes of cringe. Overall I think we got a bit smug and self-congratulating over the Olympics and I'm glad we'll be getting back to our usual selves again.
Nope and the commentators didn't seem to either. I enjoyed the Olympics but the eulogising about how great our Olympics was and how no one could ever do it as well as us annoyed the Hell out of me by the end. I even had to edit the post twice just to add more things that I thought were crap For balance I'll mention that I did enjoy the Eric Idle bit and the deaf and blind choir were cool
fair enough mate! i'm not that bothered by the hype. Infact, I think the country needed that positivity with all else that's currently going on. only problem, is that it's now pretty depressing that it's all finished. the world got to see thousands of people performing sport/s that they love and have dedicated their lives to. - some of which dont earn much at all, and having jobs to think about too. It really puts footballers into perspective. they should be ashamed of themselves. i just hope it's given people such an inspiration to get out there and try something new, regardless of their age. just proves how many awesome sports there are out there that need recognition. sports broadcasters need to consider making more of a deal out of these alternative sports and giving them more TV coverage. A lot of the events were thoroughly entertaining. - especially the cycling in the veladrome. superb.
