Political a**e licking

Or is it just cos there was more media coverage and more potential
votes in being seen with a rugby team?


Is the right answer.

Cheers, helen s

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So Tony Blur has sent conratulations and is offering to wine and dine
the ruby team.

Ok so they won the match, but what about others who have succeeded in
their sport Nicole Cooke, David millar et al.

Or is it just cos there was more media coverage and more potential
votes in being seen with a rugby team?

Martyn

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 10:50:14 UTC, Martyn Bolt
wrote:

So Tony Blur has sent conratulations and is offering to wine and dine
the ruby team.

Ok so they won the match, but what about others who have succeeded in
their sport Nicole Cooke, David millar et al.

Or is it just cos there was more media coverage and more potential
votes in being seen with a rugby team?

Martyn

Nothing to do with them being the "England" rugby team and not the
"British" rugby team would it? Let's face it, "Brits" win loads of stuff
"England" virtually nothing.

--
Tina

Tina Eager wrote:

Nothing to do with them being the "England" rugby team and not the
"British" rugby team would it? Let's face it, "Brits" win loads of
stuff "England" virtually nothing.

Well at least after 37 years Bobby Moore can be retired ;-)

Tony

In article ,
says...
Ok so they won the match, but what about others who have succeeded in
their sport Nicole Cooke,

Welsh( British?) not English!

David millar

Scottish ( British?) not English!

"marc" marccdimspamremovedimspamto wrote in
message .. .

Ok so they won the match, but what about others who have succeeded in
their sport Nicole Cooke,

Welsh( British?) not English!

David millar

Scottish ( British?) not English!

Weren't the BRITISH Olympic team invited round for tea & buns -- including a
Scottish Women's Curling team, Welsh sprinters and triple jumpers, and
rowers of various stripes?

Politicians are media whores. A winning rugby team -- extensively covered
on TV -- are more photogenic than individual cyclists who may not even he
household names in their own street.

Its sad -- but true. Its the cult of celebrity.

marc marccdimspamremovedimspamto writes:

In article ,
says...
Ok so they won the match, but what about others who have succeeded in
their sport Nicole Cooke,

Welsh( British?) not English!

David millar

Scottish ( British?) not English!

You've forgotten the rules. We're only allowed to claim our
sportspeople if they lose. If they win, they're automatically British.

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; I'd rather live in sybar-space

Martyn Bolt wrote:

So Tony Blur has sent conratulations and is offering to wine and dine
the ruby team.

Ok so they won the match, but what about others who have succeeded in
their sport Nicole Cooke, David millar et al.

Or is it just cos there was more media coverage and more potential
votes in being seen with a rugby team?

Rugby normally has incredibly low TV viewing figures, but the fans are
all ABC1s so the advertisers love it.

In article ,
says...
Ok so they won the match, but what about others who have succeeded in
their sport Nicole Cooke,

Welsh( British?) not English!

David millar

Scottish ( British?) not English!


When I read the original post, I have to say I didn't read it as anyone trying
to claim Nicole or David as English. But rather as people from Britain (the
Welsh & Scots part in the case of Nicole & David) who *have* got to the top of
their tree in thier chosen sport, but simply and entirely possibly due to the
fact their chosen sport isn't recognised in the British press as being anything
of note, that there is little PR value to No10 in inviting them to dinner.
Hence the hypocracy of No.10.

After all, even the English are from Britain, and B.Liar is a Scot (born in
Edinburgh). So what say you, perhaps we have a Scot trying to claim the English
rugby team for Scotland ;-)

Cheers, helen s

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JP wrote:

Well at least after 37 years Bobby Moore can be retired ;-)

Great Britain won the Rugby World Cup in 1972.

But according to all the pundits, the last time England won a major
world title was...... you guessed it ;-)

Tony