Posts Tagged ‘Barcelona’
Jessica Ennis – Our Golden Girl
What a wonderful performance in Barcelona. Jessica is a delight in every way, a formidable lady of determination, strength and courage. She is so tiny yet so huge in spirit and presence. She will be the star of London 2012.
And a spectacular performance by the whole British athletics team. Perhaps, for once, we have got our timing right. It looks like we’re heading for the most fantastic celebration in London 2012.
Written by Peter Reynolds
July 31, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Posted in sport
Tagged with athletics, Barcelona, British, celebration, courage, delight, determination, formidable, huge, Jessica Ennis, London 2012, presence, spectacular, spirit, star, strength, tiny
European Culture 77, English Chavs 2
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It must be the first football match I’ve watched in 18 months. I thought it was worth investing the time. After all, it was hyped to the level where it became an event rather than just a sports occasion. But then really, football lost all that years ago. When the various mafiosi, the agents, the primadonnas and the gross, obscene salaries took hold, football lost
everything it ever had of value.
So, hilariously, ITV’s HD coverage stepped into the rhythm, just four minutes before half time and cut, bizarrely, to shots of bleach blonde, just-retired footballers in the usual badly fitting suits, adjusting their lunchboxes and utterly tasteless ties, commentators preparing for their imminent incisive anlayses, wiping away the smears of mayonnaise and more exotic “amuse bouche” from their lips.
Perfectly appropriate, I thought!
What happened to Roy Of The Rovers and football as a role model? These spoilt, vastly over paid, perversions of sporting talent, ill mannered, conceited, ignorant individuals. They are porn stars and nothing more. They don’t even deliver. Give me a third rate club rugby player, or a rower, a cyclist, a swimmer. Why is the world infected with this football virus?
The beautiful game? In the eye of the beholder without lager, violence, chav celebrity culture, we can do much. much better than this!
Truth is, 10 minutes into the second half, I turned over to watch “The Apprentice”.
Written by Peter Reynolds
May 27, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Posted in Consumerism, Politics, sport, The Media
Tagged with "amuse bouche", agent, analysis, badly fitting suits, Barcelona, commentator, cyclist, football, ITV, ITV HD, lunchbox, mafiosi, Manchester United, obscene, perversion, porn, porn star, primadonna, rower, Roy Of The Rovers, rugby, soccer, spoilt, swimmer, tasteless, The Apprentice, value