What a disgraceful piece of 'journalism'
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from the Times.
Apparently former world champion Mansell, Lewis Hamilton (after 'amost the perfect debut season') and Stirling Moss are all among the top 50 British losers. As is 4-minute-mile Roger Bannister, Olympic boxing champion Audley Harrison and multi-marathon-winning Paula Radcliffe.
Way to celebrate sporting achievement - I wouldn't expect that from The Sun!
Apparently former world champion Mansell, Lewis Hamilton (after 'amost the perfect debut season') and Stirling Moss are all among the top 50 British losers. As is 4-minute-mile Roger Bannister, Olympic boxing champion Audley Harrison and multi-marathon-winning Paula Radcliffe.
Way to celebrate sporting achievement - I wouldn't expect that from The Sun!
lord summerisle said:
miss this bit?
In terms of an individual race, second place is first loser. In terms of a season, coming second is first runner-up and is different to individual races IMO. Second place in a season of competition would suggest a number of individual wins within that season and some worse results.times said:
this list of Britain's Top 50 Gallant Sporting “Losers” may help to spark discussion. The inverted commas are important. Why should second place be regarded as losing?
Gruffy said:
from the Times.
Apparently former world champion Mansell, Lewis Hamilton (after 'amost the perfect debut season') and Stirling Moss are all among the top 50 British losers. As is 4-minute-mile Roger Bannister, Olympic boxing champion Audley Harrison and multi-marathon-winning Paula Radcliffe.
Way to celebrate sporting achievement - I wouldn't expect that from The Sun!
Make sure you read The Sun this week for Lewis's story in his own words as advertised yesterday.Apparently former world champion Mansell, Lewis Hamilton (after 'amost the perfect debut season') and Stirling Moss are all among the top 50 British losers. As is 4-minute-mile Roger Bannister, Olympic boxing champion Audley Harrison and multi-marathon-winning Paula Radcliffe.
Way to celebrate sporting achievement - I wouldn't expect that from The Sun!
ewenm said:
In terms of an individual race, second place is first loser. In terms of a season, coming second is first runner-up and is different to individual races IMO. Second place in a season of competition would suggest a number of individual wins within that season and some worse results.
It's also, frankly, absurd to brand olympic champions, world champions and world record holders as losers.No matter how many commas you include
Gruffy said:
ewenm said:
In terms of an individual race, second place is first loser. In terms of a season, coming second is first runner-up and is different to individual races IMO. Second place in a season of competition would suggest a number of individual wins within that season and some worse results.
It's also, frankly, absurd to brand olympic champions, world champions and world record holders as losers.No matter how many commas you include
England football team
England cricket team
England Rugby union team
They are all disasters, any time they ever get near victory and we start having to have the smelling salts and then for the next 3 years they are terrible.
Actually stick the cricket team above the football team, they won against the Aussies just because the aussies played badly and then they only just won! Bring back botham and shoot Freddie F**koff or whatever he is called.
In relation to them Stirling and Lewis are top notch.
Regards
Andy
England cricket team
England Rugby union team
They are all disasters, any time they ever get near victory and we start having to have the smelling salts and then for the next 3 years they are terrible.
Actually stick the cricket team above the football team, they won against the Aussies just because the aussies played badly and then they only just won! Bring back botham and shoot Freddie F**koff or whatever he is called.
In relation to them Stirling and Lewis are top notch.
Regards
Andy
Gruffy said:
from the Times.
Apparently former world champion Mansell, Lewis Hamilton (after 'amost the perfect debut season') and Stirling Moss are all among the top 50 British losers. As is 4-minute-mile Roger Bannister, Olympic boxing champion Audley Harrison and multi-marathon-winning Paula Radcliffe.
Way to celebrate sporting achievement - I wouldn't expect that from The Sun!
There is nothing disgraceful about this piece at all.Apparently former world champion Mansell, Lewis Hamilton (after 'amost the perfect debut season') and Stirling Moss are all among the top 50 British losers. As is 4-minute-mile Roger Bannister, Olympic boxing champion Audley Harrison and multi-marathon-winning Paula Radcliffe.
Way to celebrate sporting achievement - I wouldn't expect that from The Sun!
What IS disgraceful is that millions of idoits keep buying this shit each day. Newspapers and crap mags keep writing this garbage because it sells - simple really. The problem lies with every individual who coughs up the money each morning to by such crap. If everyone stopped buying these newspapers and magazines then things would change, and change bloody quickly too!!
I do not buy any newspapers, be that red tops or broadsheets - they are all the same. I have a close friend who's in the media world and I have been lucky enough to get invites to the odd party in my time. None of the fleet street journos could write anything correctly because the vast majority are stoned, trust me I've seen it with my own eyes!
I remember Robbie Williams once saying that he found it strange to read articles about him taking drugs, when these articles were written by people who were taking drugs with him!!!
This country's print media is a disgrace and the sooner all the millions of sheep stop buying the shite the better
Edited by motormania on Thursday 1st November 11:45
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