Limp Picks

From the Guardian:

"Last Thursday, the venerable Rupert Murdoch took to Twitter to issue his early verdict on the Olympics....."No wonder China leading in medals while US and UK mainly teach competitive sport a bad thing," he said. "How many champions state school background?" "

In my experience, state schools have competitive sports to give the non-academic kids something to achieve whereas it's your progressive private schools where the kids call the teachers by their first name and choose the lessons that have non-competitive games.

Glad for Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis, and all winners whether black, white, "of mixed heritage" etc, but I don't think the BNP and their armed* wing, the EDL will suddenly wake up all pro-immigration. Daley Thompson, Fatima Whitbread, Tessa Sanderson didn't stop the Brixton riots happening. Jesse Owens didn't bring in civil riots in the US. Sport is not a salve.

Finally, I suggested on that twitter that since our national anthem is so awful that someone should write some words to the Chariots of Fire theme. Danny Boyle got in touch and suggested this, based on his opening ceremony:

The suffragettes won votes
The nurses are great,
British music is cool,
The Tories I hate.

Oh, the industrial rev-ol-ution,
it cleared all the fields,
The industrial rev-ol-ution,
increased all our yields.

Finally #2, if Spandau Ballet aren't re-releasing Gold, then their accountant needs a strong word with them.

* with bricks and dog-shit