Goodbye Timmy, back to Oxfordshire for him, to count his money for the Ariel advert. Where are our world beaters Daley, Seb, Crammy, Linford and Ovett on the track. We wont win anything at football, our batsmen are crap (good young fast bowlers though). Are we ever again going to produce someone who will inspire like Redgrave or the afore mentioned athletes. Thank God for The England rugby team and Paula
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He took that horrible woman of his to aggravate the Spanish.......
How considerate................
Henman was never going to win Wimbledon this year or any other.
Don't think we need to beat ourselves up too much over the inevitable (annual) demise of Tiny Tim.
Just wish he'd get knocked out earlier so people could concentrate on the tennis and not those muppets who inhabit "Henman Hill"
Henmania??
My a*se!
put a chimp in a union jack and wed have chimpmania
chimps hill
Simon Lessing, Spencer Smith, Tim Don, Richard Jones ...
and the women are pretty good too )
They train most of there top sportsmen and women in this way. It works for them, so why not try it in the U.k?
On the subject of "like Redgrave", how about Matthew Pinsent? If Redgrave hadn't been around we'd be going apesh1t over him winning three successive gold medals, and yet because Redgrave has already done it he gets very little publicity, in spite of the fact that he's won a lot more stuff than most people (how many other British competitors have three gold medals?)
Leanda Cave-Welsh triathlete?
Jodie Swallow-?
its true though, i have chewed my fingers to the bone worrying about whether any brand of washing powder will sponsor some tennis rackets
As for Jodie Swallow - no comment I may get myself into trouble!!!
Spencer Smith is THE MAN - I predict that he will win Hawaii this year.
Paul.
Our cricket team is the 2nd best test team in the world under the excellent leadership of Nasser Hussain.
On football, in the last 5 world cups we have been semi finalists (lost on pens), not qualified (Graham Taylor!), last 16 (pens again) and quarter finalist (beaten by Brazil) - hardly a record of unparallelled failure.
Also our Rugby Union team is currently best in the world.
Our problem is we try and compete at a high level in many team and individual sports, thus diluting the raw talent that is there.
Name me another country ranked in the top 10 in football, cricket and rugby, with some top athletes, golfers, snooker players and motor racing drivers.
However it can't help that we appear to have umpteen unco-ordinated national bodies that are supposed to be doing something about it all - UK Athletics, Sport England, UK Sport, Sports Council, local council sports committees, etc, etc. They all pay healthy sums to their various committees and the endless mgmt consultants brought in to give them fancy logos when what we really need is half of them merged together, given a decent remit & to get on with the job of making sure something is done about things like school sports grounds and so on.
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