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There are many things to expect from a English summer - rain, the jeans you bought 2 weeks ago now half the price, wasps thinking the best place to put it's ass is in your beer and of course everyones favourite, massive failure of English athletes in all types of sporting events (apart from Tiddlywinks and Extreme Ironing of course)
Henman, Button, The Rugby Team, The Football team, The cricket team, basically if they're English they're going to lose. But why? Why as a country housing 60 million people can we not come up with at least 1 person who is capable of winning a major sports event again and again and not something like the Crossing the road championships? (and we only won that because the Nigerian lad dropped out)
I'll tell you why, we're too bloomin liberal and soft now, there's no killer edge that's why. Instead of wanting to win we just want to have a good game and hope everyone enjoys themselves. From an early age we're told:
*It's not the winning that counts, but the taking part and playing fair*
Bull doo doo, if you're going to take part in a sport, winning should be the first and only thing on your mind. If i'm beating some poor sap 15-0 in a game of one on one basketball chances are i'm going to be having a good time, not if the scoreline is the other way around.
Having lived in America for a good few years i have experienced both styles of coaching and they couldn't be anymore different. Over there you're told from the start if you aren't there with the sole aim to win then go home now and don't waste everyone's time. They push you hard and make you do your best and if you lose then they train you twice as hard and long until eventually you're good enough to win, and when you finally do win the sense of great achievement is worth all the hard work. They have seperate leagues as well, one for the proper championships where all the good kids can go and compete with each other and another for all the poor 'Big boy' Barry's who if they broke into a sprint they'd start a forest fire with their thighs. You know, all the kids that are told by their parents:
*ah never mind, you did your best that's all that matters*
Where's the killer edge anymore? A prime example being Henman, the perfect perrenial loser. Always nearly gets there but never actually makes it to final dance. He just doesn't have it in him to deliver that final blow, he's too bloomin nice. Show some damn aggression for god sakes, the thing that made McEnroe one of the best was his aggression. He'd get worked up and then use that in his tennis to prove a point to the Umpire. He'd actually get to the point where he'd win just to spite the guy not because it was best for him. Of course the English people though by nature are far to nice, we never complain if we get short changed, we find it nerve wracking just to return something and god forbid we should actually turn around to someone in the cinema and tell them if they don't stop kicking the chair we're sitting in they'll be visiting the doctor very soon. Why do that when we can just complain to our friend about it for a week?
It's time we got out of this nanny state of which we're already slap bang in the middle of, the latest thing to drag us down deeper being to scrap sports day.
Why? Just because the poor mites might get a little upset over finishing last in the egg 'n' spoon race? Do these do gooders honestly think little Timmy is going to shoot up a building 20 years from now because he didn't win the sack race? Please, kids get subjected to far more emotional abuse every day in the playground then they do one day a year where they should be out having fun and trying to succeed, for that's what life is about is it not? Trying to succeed. But then we are under the same government that made teachers change the colour of what they marked the kids work in from red to green as it'd *soften the blow of failing* Geez we're going to need about 10 Titanics worth of cotton wool over here please to protect all our little kiddies seeing as they are so fragile.
Sport is a way of preparing for life, you have winners and you have losers, if you get screwed out of a big promotion no one is going to hold you by the hand and say *there, there, you played nice and fair, that's all that matters* These generation of kids are going to be in for a rude awakening when they finally do get out in the real world, when they're expecting everyone to guide them and play nice. All because some soccer mom from Hertfordshire thought it was a shame that poor old Timmy felt bad when he didn't win his race in the sports day.
Until then we're going to have to hope there's some American guy with a great, great, great grandmother who is a quarter english out there somewhere to win us Wimbledon or a Female swede golfer whose father once spent a fortnight in a motel in Essex for us to gain any success in the world of sport.
So in closing i just have one last plea to all the athletes going to Athens.
Win bloody something for England this summer for god sake will you?
This has been a rant trademark of Lakers Inc. All opinions and points raised are his and his alone and SR take no responsibility whatsoever.
Henman, Button, The Rugby Team, The Football team, The cricket team, basically if they're English they're going to lose. But why? Why as a country housing 60 million people can we not come up with at least 1 person who is capable of winning a major sports event again and again and not something like the Crossing the road championships? (and we only won that because the Nigerian lad dropped out)
I'll tell you why, we're too bloomin liberal and soft now, there's no killer edge that's why. Instead of wanting to win we just want to have a good game and hope everyone enjoys themselves. From an early age we're told:
*It's not the winning that counts, but the taking part and playing fair*
Bull doo doo, if you're going to take part in a sport, winning should be the first and only thing on your mind. If i'm beating some poor sap 15-0 in a game of one on one basketball chances are i'm going to be having a good time, not if the scoreline is the other way around.
Having lived in America for a good few years i have experienced both styles of coaching and they couldn't be anymore different. Over there you're told from the start if you aren't there with the sole aim to win then go home now and don't waste everyone's time. They push you hard and make you do your best and if you lose then they train you twice as hard and long until eventually you're good enough to win, and when you finally do win the sense of great achievement is worth all the hard work. They have seperate leagues as well, one for the proper championships where all the good kids can go and compete with each other and another for all the poor 'Big boy' Barry's who if they broke into a sprint they'd start a forest fire with their thighs. You know, all the kids that are told by their parents:
*ah never mind, you did your best that's all that matters*
Where's the killer edge anymore? A prime example being Henman, the perfect perrenial loser. Always nearly gets there but never actually makes it to final dance. He just doesn't have it in him to deliver that final blow, he's too bloomin nice. Show some damn aggression for god sakes, the thing that made McEnroe one of the best was his aggression. He'd get worked up and then use that in his tennis to prove a point to the Umpire. He'd actually get to the point where he'd win just to spite the guy not because it was best for him. Of course the English people though by nature are far to nice, we never complain if we get short changed, we find it nerve wracking just to return something and god forbid we should actually turn around to someone in the cinema and tell them if they don't stop kicking the chair we're sitting in they'll be visiting the doctor very soon. Why do that when we can just complain to our friend about it for a week?
It's time we got out of this nanny state of which we're already slap bang in the middle of, the latest thing to drag us down deeper being to scrap sports day.
Why? Just because the poor mites might get a little upset over finishing last in the egg 'n' spoon race? Do these do gooders honestly think little Timmy is going to shoot up a building 20 years from now because he didn't win the sack race? Please, kids get subjected to far more emotional abuse every day in the playground then they do one day a year where they should be out having fun and trying to succeed, for that's what life is about is it not? Trying to succeed. But then we are under the same government that made teachers change the colour of what they marked the kids work in from red to green as it'd *soften the blow of failing* Geez we're going to need about 10 Titanics worth of cotton wool over here please to protect all our little kiddies seeing as they are so fragile.
Sport is a way of preparing for life, you have winners and you have losers, if you get screwed out of a big promotion no one is going to hold you by the hand and say *there, there, you played nice and fair, that's all that matters* These generation of kids are going to be in for a rude awakening when they finally do get out in the real world, when they're expecting everyone to guide them and play nice. All because some soccer mom from Hertfordshire thought it was a shame that poor old Timmy felt bad when he didn't win his race in the sports day.
Until then we're going to have to hope there's some American guy with a great, great, great grandmother who is a quarter english out there somewhere to win us Wimbledon or a Female swede golfer whose father once spent a fortnight in a motel in Essex for us to gain any success in the world of sport.
So in closing i just have one last plea to all the athletes going to Athens.
Win bloody something for England this summer for god sake will you?
This has been a rant trademark of Lakers Inc. All opinions and points raised are his and his alone and SR take no responsibility whatsoever.
True.
*Nods*
But indeed, we don't really get to see the American style of coaching in action (exluding athletics really), because they're mainstream sports are ones that we (Britain) don't focus on.
They religiously follow American footie, baseball, basketball and ice hockey.
We follow rugby and football.
*Nods*
But indeed, we don't really get to see the American style of coaching in action (exluding athletics really), because they're mainstream sports are ones that we (Britain) don't focus on.
They religiously follow American footie, baseball, basketball and ice hockey.
We follow rugby and football.
There are many things to expect from a English summer - rain, the jeans you bought 2 weeks ago now half the price, wasps thinking the best place to put it's ass is in your beer and of course everyones favourite, massive failure of English athletes in all types of sporting events (apart from Tiddlywinks and Extreme Ironing of course)
Henman, Button, The Rugby Team, The Football team, The cricket team, basically if they're English they're going to lose. But why? Why as a country housing 60 million people can we not come up with at least 1 person who is capable of winning a major sports event again and again and not something like the Crossing the road championships? (and we only won that because the Nigerian lad dropped out)
I'll tell you why, we're too bloomin liberal and soft now, there's no killer edge that's why. Instead of wanting to win we just want to have a good game and hope everyone enjoys themselves. From an early age we're told:
*It's not the winning that counts, but the taking part and playing fair*
Bull doo doo, if you're going to take part in a sport, winning should be the first and only thing on your mind. If i'm beating some poor sap 15-0 in a game of one on one basketball chances are i'm going to be having a good time, not if the scoreline is the other way around.
Having lived in America for a good few years i have experienced both styles of coaching and they couldn't be anymore different. Over there you're told from the start if you aren't there with the sole aim to win then go home now and don't waste everyone's time. They push you hard and make you do your best and if you lose then they train you twice as hard and long until eventually you're good enough to win, and when you finally do win the sense of great achievement is worth all the hard work. They have seperate leagues as well, one for the proper championships where all the good kids can go and compete with each other and another for all the poor 'Big boy' Barry's who if they broke into a sprint they'd start a forest fire with their thighs. You know, all the kids that are told by their parents:
*ah never mind, you did your best that's all that matters*
Where's the killer edge anymore? A prime example being Henman, the perfect perrenial loser. Always nearly gets there but never actually makes it to final dance. He just doesn't have it in him to deliver that final blow, he's too bloomin nice. Show some damn aggression for god sakes, the thing that made McEnroe one of the best was his aggression. He'd get worked up and then use that in his tennis to prove a point to the Umpire. He'd actually get to the point where he'd win just to spite the guy not because it was best for him. Of course the English people though by nature are far to nice, we never complain if we get short changed, we find it nerve wracking just to return something and god forbid we should actually turn around to someone in the cinema and tell them if they don't stop kicking the chair we're sitting in they'll be visiting the doctor very soon. Why do that when we can just complain to our friend about it for a week?
It's time we got out of this nanny state of which we're already slap bang in the middle of, the latest thing to drag us down deeper being to scrap sports day.
Why? Just because the poor mites might get a little upset over finishing last in the egg 'n' spoon race? Do these do gooders honestly think little Timmy is going to shoot up a building 20 years from now because he didn't win the sack race? Please, kids get subjected to far more emotional abuse every day in the playground then they do one day a year where they should be out having fun and trying to succeed, for that's what life is about is it not? Trying to succeed. But then we are under the same government that made teachers change the colour of what they marked the kids work in from red to green as it'd *soften the blow of failing* Geez we're going to need about 10 Titanics worth of cotton wool over here please to protect all our little kiddies seeing as they are so fragile.
Sport is a way of preparing for life, you have winners and you have losers, if you get screwed out of a big promotion no one is going to hold you by the hand and say *there, there, you played nice and fair, that's all that matters* These generation of kids are going to be in for a rude awakening when they finally do get out in the real world, when they're expecting everyone to guide them and play nice. All because some soccer mom from Hertfordshire thought it was a shame that poor old Timmy felt bad when he didn't win his race in the sports day.
Until then we're going to have to hope there's some American guy with a great, great, great grandmother who is a quarter english out there somewhere to win us Wimbledon or a Female swede golfer whose father once spent a fortnight in a motel in Essex for us to gain any success in the world of sport.
So in closing i just have one last plea to all the athletes going to Athens.
Win bloody something for England this summer for god sake will you?
This has been a rant trademark of Lakers Inc. All opinions and points raised are his and his alone and SR take no responsibility whatsoever.
Henman, Button, The Rugby Team, The Football team, The cricket team, basically if they're English they're going to lose. But why? Why as a country housing 60 million people can we not come up with at least 1 person who is capable of winning a major sports event again and again and not something like the Crossing the road championships? (and we only won that because the Nigerian lad dropped out)
I'll tell you why, we're too bloomin liberal and soft now, there's no killer edge that's why. Instead of wanting to win we just want to have a good game and hope everyone enjoys themselves. From an early age we're told:
*It's not the winning that counts, but the taking part and playing fair*
Bull doo doo, if you're going to take part in a sport, winning should be the first and only thing on your mind. If i'm beating some poor sap 15-0 in a game of one on one basketball chances are i'm going to be having a good time, not if the scoreline is the other way around.
Having lived in America for a good few years i have experienced both styles of coaching and they couldn't be anymore different. Over there you're told from the start if you aren't there with the sole aim to win then go home now and don't waste everyone's time. They push you hard and make you do your best and if you lose then they train you twice as hard and long until eventually you're good enough to win, and when you finally do win the sense of great achievement is worth all the hard work. They have seperate leagues as well, one for the proper championships where all the good kids can go and compete with each other and another for all the poor 'Big boy' Barry's who if they broke into a sprint they'd start a forest fire with their thighs. You know, all the kids that are told by their parents:
*ah never mind, you did your best that's all that matters*
Where's the killer edge anymore? A prime example being Henman, the perfect perrenial loser. Always nearly gets there but never actually makes it to final dance. He just doesn't have it in him to deliver that final blow, he's too bloomin nice. Show some damn aggression for god sakes, the thing that made McEnroe one of the best was his aggression. He'd get worked up and then use that in his tennis to prove a point to the Umpire. He'd actually get to the point where he'd win just to spite the guy not because it was best for him. Of course the English people though by nature are far to nice, we never complain if we get short changed, we find it nerve wracking just to return something and god forbid we should actually turn around to someone in the cinema and tell them if they don't stop kicking the chair we're sitting in they'll be visiting the doctor very soon. Why do that when we can just complain to our friend about it for a week?
It's time we got out of this nanny state of which we're already slap bang in the middle of, the latest thing to drag us down deeper being to scrap sports day.
Why? Just because the poor mites might get a little upset over finishing last in the egg 'n' spoon race? Do these do gooders honestly think little Timmy is going to shoot up a building 20 years from now because he didn't win the sack race? Please, kids get subjected to far more emotional abuse every day in the playground then they do one day a year where they should be out having fun and trying to succeed, for that's what life is about is it not? Trying to succeed. But then we are under the same government that made teachers change the colour of what they marked the kids work in from red to green as it'd *soften the blow of failing* Geez we're going to need about 10 Titanics worth of cotton wool over here please to protect all our little kiddies seeing as they are so fragile.
Sport is a way of preparing for life, you have winners and you have losers, if you get screwed out of a big promotion no one is going to hold you by the hand and say *there, there, you played nice and fair, that's all that matters* These generation of kids are going to be in for a rude awakening when they finally do get out in the real world, when they're expecting everyone to guide them and play nice. All because some soccer mom from Hertfordshire thought it was a shame that poor old Timmy felt bad when he didn't win his race in the sports day.
Until then we're going to have to hope there's some American guy with a great, great, great grandmother who is a quarter english out there somewhere to win us Wimbledon or a Female swede golfer whose father once spent a fortnight in a motel in Essex for us to gain any success in the world of sport.
So in closing i just have one last plea to all the athletes going to Athens.
Win bloody something for England this summer for god sake will you?
This has been a rant trademark of Lakers Inc. All opinions and points raised are his and his alone and SR take no responsibility whatsoever.