Rugby
OK, I’m not one for sport. I can’t stand football and find the way the players fall over if anyone comes anywhere near them hysterically funny. Hell, I’d run around for 90 minutes falling over if someone was going to pay me that much money. rugby, on the other hand, I don’t mind (the one sport I ever took an interest in was American football and it’s close enough to rugby for me not to mind watching it) and since the majority of my new found Colchester friends love rugby I’ve decided to take a bit more of an interest (besides, I don’t care how much money you pay me, I wouldn’t run round for 80 minutes being knocked over by some of the brutes they’ve got playing).
So, it’s the rugby world cup final this Saturday. I’ve got enough of a grasp of the rules to work out who is who, what they’re trying to do and who is winning all I need to do now is work out who to support. My friends are South Africans and Australians so they will, of course, all be supporting the South Africans (stands to reason really). They won’t mind if I support the English (I was, after all born here and 50% of my biological parentage [just don't ask - it gets way too complicated] comes from here) but… well… I don’t actually want them to win.
Now, before you denegrate me and cast me into some hitherto unnamed level of hell hear me out. In 1966 we won the football world cup. 1966. Last millennium. And we [the English] still. Wont. Shut. Up. About it. I mean, for God’s sake, it was 41 years ago. Most of the people who go on about it weren’t even born then.
Lets look at the rugby. We won last time. Woo, go us and all that. A tad annoying that millions of people who were never rugby fans before suddenly became ardent, lifelong fans of the game, but hey, we’ll ignore that. There were parades through the streets, a heroes welcome and much punditry about the whole affair for bloody ages. If we win again we will be the first country ever to win the rugby world cup twice in a row. Can you imagine how that’s going to go down? We, as a country, will become unbearable. We’ll be rubbing it in everyones faces and we’ll be milking it for eons. Centuries from now, no matter how badly we’re beaten, we’ll be clinging onto the ‘yeah, but in 2007 we won the cup twice in a row’.
Actually, sod it, I’m going to claim my heritage on my fathers side. Come on you Bajan Blues!
Oh! the halcyon days of Dickie Jeeps - now that was a rugby player to watch, albeit only in black and white.
Yes, these days they play in colour. Unfortunately the don’t play in High Definition yet which means the pictures is (rather ironically) pants on my very expensive TV. Maybe next time
I wouldn’t throw Sébastien Chabal out of bed!
You make all this small nation on a small island thing sound terribly bad in some way? Perhaps what you’re missing is your dose of ‘new’ labour BS. Try reading the not a constitution* cover to cover, that should be enough to put you off the input of any other nation and then you can pick up your England shirt.
*Honest governor, completely different to that last one what the people did not like, no sir, this one is different so much so that no one needs to know what it is or get to vote on it…
OK - who actually voted for Labour? Come on, own up! I’ve never met anyone who actually admits to wanting that bunch of cretinous idiots to actually want to run the country, so who was actually voting for them? That said, they’re all idiots, just some worse than others. I much prefer the idea of a smaller nation on a smaller island with the same queen, and education system that works and a cricket [not that I actually like the game] team that has a clue how to play.