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Olympics 9, Football 1
Written by Jimmy
After all, it is all about the music. So before we go any further, please have this playing while you read:
Loved the Olympics and we had the advantage of shifting our red-white and blue paints from Union Jacks to Stars and Stripes, so whether on the couch or at the events (we managed as a family in some combination to see: cycling, swimming, horse-riding, volley ball and gymnastics) we were always cheering on someone near the front of the race. And we now do the Mo Bot.
There are few negatives that emerged from this Olympics. Oh, there is one. One couldn’t help walking away from these Olympics pretty clear that footballers suck, especially the England team, whether disguised as team GB at Olympics or wearing the 3 Lions.
Here’s a few simple reasons:
- Team GB responds to the cheers from the crowd and delivers lifetime performances. English football tells us to ‘F**k off’. In later years we will all lie (I’ve started) and tell everyone that we were at the Athletics on Saturday night and cheered Janice and Mo through the last 200 meters of their races, where they were pushed from our cheers from middle of the back to 10 meter victories. In later years, we will all deny watching the TV when Rooney told us to all ‘F**k off’ because we stopped shouting our lungs out to support a rubbish team.
- Mo wins a gold and grabs his little girl and then thanks his adoptive country for welcoming him.. Rooney scores a gold and spits at the camera.
- Nothing was more fun than watching GB athletes hug each other on the BBC couches, keen to hear from the other how it was going. The former English Captain calls the brother of his defensive partner a F-B-C or B-F-C, I forget the order and think the B word was probably the least offensive in the whole outburst. And his defensive partner than calls another team mate a Choc-Ice. Sweet.
- Footballers get more a week in salary than most GB athletes get over 3 years of training. But GB seem happier and prouder.
- Footballers are just stupid. Can’t put too fine a point on it. Team GB aren’t.
- Three lions are losers and always under-perform for the most part. Greater than the sum of parts? Never close. Team GB seem to out-perform in every they do.
- Football games are filled with football fans. Team GB was not supported by Football fans.
- Joey Barton recognized all this and tweeted that footballers can learn a lot from Team GB. If Joey Barton plays again the premiership football has learned nothing. Here’s an article on Joey and the Olympics: click here.
- Team GB is supported by Arctic Monkeys covering Come Together. English football has that comedian guy singing about lions on his shirt.
- Sadly, football has Team GB over on one thing. You can get bloody tickets to a bloody match. Does anybody yet understand what they were thinking with Olympic ticketing?