sonson
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Yet you're posting on a football forum not rowing one.
Playing football-which I do-is quite abit different from the game at the top level. And if I supported Sunderland because of the football I would have stopped a long time ago.
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Yet you're posting on a football forum not rowing one.
The lack of passion and effort and pride has never been more obvious when compared with truly outstanding athletes truly giving their all for their nations.
What a bunch of overpaid, overrated egotisitical fuckwits.
Best thread I've read on this board for ages! These athletes are doing it for pride and love of sport which makes it quite apt that the footballers couldn't find it in themselves when there isn't a big fat cheque at the end of it!
The lack of passion and effort and pride has never been more obvious when compared with truly outstanding athletes truly giving their all for their nations.
What a bunch of overpaid, overrated egotisitical fuckwits.
Best thread I've read on this board for ages! These athletes are doing it for pride and love of sport which makes it quite apt that the footballers couldn't find it in themselves when there isn't a big fat cheque at the end of it!
The only way to change it is to stop buying "the product".
Not likely to happen anytime soon is it?
I think you'll find there are some fairly hefty cheques waiting for Wiggins, Ennis, Farah, etc.
Professional sport (and these olympians are all professionals) is all about money, in the same way as professional football is.
If you point is that the athletes compete with a lot more dignity, then I would totally agree with you.
The lack of passion and effort and pride has never been more obvious when compared with truly outstanding athletes truly giving their all for their nations.
What a bunch of overpaid, overrated egotisitical fuckwits.
I'm only 28 and even I see a huge difference in the way the games changed since I started watching it. God knows how the older poster feel about it who watched through the 70's and 80's. It's absolutely sole destroying to watch these overpaid, over hyped toss pots ruin the game I love.
I'm probably just talking in the moment after watching that shite, but football is becoming less and less important to me as time passes.... no doubt until the new season starts![]()
Exactly. Apparently Mo Farah trains by running 120 miles a week. That's roughly 5 marathons a week, every week. And he must get paid a tiny fraction of what a premiership footballer earns (although hopefully that'll change a bit now).
Imagine how good our footballers could be, if they could show that level of determination and self-sacrifice...instead of the indulged, pampered lifestyles they all seem to lead.
Not much to add.
I agree 100%.
But i think that Frank Lampard does not give a shit.
We were discussing this same thing last night, a lot of the overpaid tosses didn't even think it was worth turning up for the olympics. When you listen to Ennis and Wiggins then think about Rooney and Terry the comparison is stark. But it's us the fans who put up with it and demand we pay them and treat them like we do. The only real top player who shows any sort of olympic spirit is beckham I remember the Greece game and how he gave everything for his country.
Maybe Beckham loves his country but Gazza would have done anything to get that England shirt on
I go to the match for a few drinks and to catch up with mates - I think a lot of us do - have no respect for 99% of footballers and wouldnt blink an eyelid if I saw them in the street
totally agree with the sentiment.
Premiership players are obscenely overpaid, under achieving,ignorant, crude, badly behaved, poor sportsmen and very poor role models for up and coming youngsters,
The countries olympian's are far and away better sportsmen than whinging greedy footballers.
Footballers in the past always had an affinity to the working man/woman.
not any more.
Most though not all come over as unpleasant thugs ,bullies,cheats and nasty human beings