Knighthood for Chris Froome?

[Andy_R]

What a load of old bollocks from a bitter and ill informed twerp, and if you don't think that the top tennis players are supreme athletes then you need to take a good look at yourself, better yet, take a good look at the top players in action.

Calling me bitter and ill informed on the basis of one post is interesting. I shall bow to the obviously superior knowledge of a judgemental narrowminded crackpot.

 

[rich p]

'Twerp' is a lovely word though. It takes me back to those innocent, halcyon days of my youth ...

...The Dandy, The Beano, The Bash Street Kids, The Beezer...

... and Anne Funnel behind the bike sheds.

 

[Mugshot]

'Twerp' is a lovely word though. It takes me back to those innocent, halcyon days of my youth ...

...The Dandy, The Beano, The Bash Street Kids, The Beezer...

... and Anne Funnel behind the bike sheds.

I'm quite fond of crackpot too

 

[rich p]

I'm quite fond of crackpot too

Don't be a clot....

 

[Mugshot]

Calling me bitter and ill informed on the basis of one post is interesting. I shall bow to the obviously superior knowledge of a judgemental narrowminded crackpot.

That one post said an awful lot about you.

 

[AndyRM]

Have we decided if he should get a knighthood yet, or are we just comparing things that can't really be compared?

 

[Andy_R]

That one post said an awful lot about you.

no...it just turned the tables. Not nice to be called names is it?

 

[Mugshot]

no...it just turned the tables. Not nice to be called names is it?

Which tables were you turning exactly?
Being called names really doesn't bother me at all.

 

[mybike]

Aren't gongs & knighthoods given away for being popular in order to get more votes for politicians?

 

[John the Monkey]

Have we decided if he should get a knighthood yet, or are we just comparing things that can't really be compared?

Who knows.

As someone who dislikes the persona adopted by the other Tour De France winnner our fair isle[1] has produced, I'd quite like to see the diffident, polite Froome become a Sir. But there wouldn't be wailing and gnashing of teeth in the monkey household were it not to happen. I might tut, I suppose.


[1] Tedious nationality discussion happens earlier in the thread, I think.

 

[blazed]

A footballer rolls around to gain advantage rightly or wrongly it is part of the sport. If there were no advantage to be gained they would not roll around. When a cyclist comes off the bike he has no advantage to gain by being injured and every advantage to gain by getting back on as quickly as possible. I don't believe anelite cyclist is any tougher than an elite footballer.

People say footballers are overpaid and over pampered, I don't think they are either. They are paid based on what they generate, there is a lot more money in football and they deserve a nice chunk of that. They are 'pampered' because they are assets worth millions of pounds in transfer fees, they need to be looked after. A pro cyclist is an athlete competing in a fringe sport with no where the level of competition compared to the top sports. To become an elite footballer is far more difficult than to become an elite cyclist.

 

[AndyRM]

Who knows.

As someone who dislikes the persona adopted by the other Tour De France winnner our fair isle[1] has produced, I'd quite like to see the diffident, polite Froome become a Sir. But there wouldn't be wailing and gnashing of teeth in the monkey household were it not to happen. I might tut, I suppose.


[1] Tedious nationality discussion happens earlier in the thread, I think.

Agreed on all counts. Particularly about Wiggins, mostly because I think his taste in music is horrendous.

 

[John the Monkey]

Agreed on all counts. Particularly about Wiggins, mostly because I think his taste in music is horrendous.

We desperately need a Tour winner who bloomin' loves Dubstep, I'm sure you agree.

 

[Justinslow]

No it's not opinion, referring to football as wendyball is pathetic in the extreme, and has other less savoury connotations as has been pointed out by @User13710 and @coffeejo, suggesting that athletes in other sports have less prowess or less athletic ability purely because you don't particularly like the sport they are involved in is also pathetic and utterly twerpish, and if you think that the post I was replying to, the one which you liked, was adding to the "healthy debate" then you're sorely mistaken.

Darts, snooker?

 

[John the Monkey]

A footballer rolls around to gain advantage rightly or wrongly it is part of the sport. If there were no advantage to be gained they would not roll around. When a cyclist comes off the bike he has no advantage to gain by being injured and every advantage to gain by getting back on as quickly as possible. I don't believe anelite cyclist is any tougher than an elite footballer.

Both cultures can be problematic - see riders who cross the line despite what appeared to be concussion, &c in cycling (Horner, I think it was , a hugely irresponsible decision to ride on by his team). Were there injury time in cycling (or no stoppage in Association Football) those cultures would probably change.

People say footballers are overpaid and over pampered, I don't think they are either. They are paid based on what they generate, there is a lot more money in football and they deserve a nice chunk of that.

Possibly - although there's other elements to the culture (the vacuously plutographic culture around it, disrespect for officials &c) that may be driven by the level of remuneration that seem problematic to an outsider looking in. I think the levels of investment by media companies looking for return (in part, at least to cover the cost of higher and higher pay bills) have also led to a sort of sporting monoculture on our back pages and in other media that, again, to an outsider, seems problematic. (It's not uncommon to see actual news from other sports pushed off the prominent pages in favour of, for instance, transfer rumours. Or "Sport Sections" that might as well be retitled "Football Section").