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Horse racing should no longer be called a sport
October 20 2009
Strictly speaking this headline is dead wrong. We have a physical activity that is engaged in at a competitive level with a set of fairly clear rules and guidelines.
Yet so many (see above) still treat it like a sport. I am constantly bemused by the amount of people who should know better expressing surprise at anything that happens in boxing.
Roy Jones Jr, Danny Green a real let down (39)
December 3rd, 2009
A number of people on this thread and others have mentioned that this issue is now dead and we should move on. To be fair we should only really move on when a fair and reasonable response has been initiated by FIFA. This of course will never happen as, just like the IOC, they are a disgracefully corrupt and duplicitous organisation with no love for the sport/s they run.
Henry’s cheating is not really comparable to diving, etc. The end result is the same but if someone is prepared to do something that blatant on the big stage and know there is a good chance he will get away with it, then it is genuinely worrying. Diving in the box and faking fouls are harder for refs to spot in real time.
What really gets me is the multitude of players willing to spout the ‘that’s football’ line. It’s the kind of thoughtless, mindless crap that can and will excuse just about anything. and never seems to elicit further questioning from the interviewers.
I may be swimming against the tide here but I would love to see Culina et al grilled just a little harder so they can justify their back-seat support properly. Just because journos don’t get to interview Blatter et al, doesn’t mean hard questions can’t be asked somewhere along the line.
Also I’m surprised how many Australians on this thread are so keen to abandon the notion of fair play (not in the FIFA sense of the term!) and have a go at the Irish apologists and genuinely outraged people out there. Maybe the Aussie hatred of whingers, which by and large is also a good thing, is coming into play here.
World game was already scarred before Henry (56)
November 25th, 2009
Anything Ferguson says to the press is calculated to achieve a specific end-result. He is a master at bluff and bluster and unsettling his enemies, perceived or real. He’s been in the hot seat for 23 years because he is equally adept at managing his team off the park as well as on. Like Luke W said, very smart.
Time for Sir Alex Ferguson to zip it up (7)
October 28th, 2009