[cite]Posted By: InspectorSands[/cite]although, to be fair, rugby did give us Sir Clive Woodward, whose list of achievements after 2003 can be written on the back of a postage stamp.
Not really. Once he'd won the rugby world cup, he was talked up as a man who could not only motivate the England rugby team to success, but could also split the atom, solve the Middle East problems, win the football World Cup and dash off a Booker Prize-winning novel, and all that was just in his lunch hour.
In fact, what happened was he contributed to Southampton being relegated from the Premier League (ho, ho) and now seems to be stuck in Olympic sport bickering.
Fair play to the rugby lads, and Paddy Collins makes some telling points, but I can hear a familiar bandwagon creaking into life again...
I think the problems at Southampton were bigger then Woodward, and football being the insular world it is, always looks to blame the outsider rather then Happy 'Arry and his brown envelopes, as for the Olympics, the feeling is that quite a few of the sports are responding well to him, some of the more backwards ones aren't, never going to get 27 different federations behaving.
Fair point, but we all knew Sir Clive's adventure at St Mary's was going to be doomed from the start - clearly that's down to Rupert Lowe, but the man certainly seemed to believe some of his hype. And that's the same kind of hype that buggers up football too, the hype that makes a generation of kids support only the big four clubs and makes minor setbacks into "disasters".
David Conn @david_conn 5m5 minutes ago Just been told Patrick Collins of Mail on Sunday has announced retirement after 50yrs. Great writer, always argued for good values in sport.
Sunday will never be the same. Walk to the shop for paper and provisions. Read News of the world (now sun on Sunday) Have a Cup of tea and a bacon sandwich with doorstep bread. Round it off with a good dump whilst reading Patrick Collins in the mos sport section. A perfect Sunday morning!
Was nice to see favourable Charlton mentions in the press when most ignored us. Deserves a long, happy and healthy retirement after 50 years at work!! :-)
Have never met him, but I emailed him asking if he could write a foreward for a thing I was doing and he could not have been kinder or more willing to give up his time. A real Charlton lover and proud to be one also.
A great journalist and you don't have to agree with him to understand that.
'His last event as a professional sport-watcher will be on 31 January. Charlton are at home to Rotherham that day, he said, joking: "It's one way to go out at the top."'
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In fact, what happened was he contributed to Southampton being relegated from the Premier League (ho, ho) and now seems to be stuck in Olympic sport bickering.
Fair play to the rugby lads, and Paddy Collins makes some telling points, but I can hear a familiar bandwagon creaking into life again...
Just been told Patrick Collins of Mail on Sunday has announced retirement after 50yrs. Great writer, always argued for good values in sport.
Sunday will never be the same.
Walk to the shop for paper and provisions.
Read News of the world (now sun on Sunday)
Have a Cup of tea and a bacon sandwich with doorstep bread.
Round it off with a good dump whilst reading Patrick Collins in the mos sport section.
A perfect Sunday morning!
http://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/members-news/best-of-his-generation-patrick-collins-to-retire/
Have never met him, but I emailed him asking if he could write a foreward for a thing I was doing and he could not have been kinder or more willing to give up his time. A real Charlton lover and proud to be one also.
A great journalist and you don't have to agree with him to understand that.
Hope Patrick enjoys his retirement.
'His last event as a professional sport-watcher will be on 31 January. Charlton are at home to Rotherham that day, he said, joking: "It's one way to go out at the top."'