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I for one am not excited at all at this age and I don't feel lucky at all to be in the UK when London 2012 is on. I'm actually slightly annoyed at these overly patriotic people who suggest we should all love it. I am fed up of hearing about it! This country has wasted a joke amount of money to get here and we should be absolutely raging at this outrage.

All I here is "How incred the Olympics is in London in 2 12" wtf is 2 12 even, or "I'm sick of people saying they are sick of hearing about it" etc.

I am bored rigid.

But the question is, will it be one of the worst? Every single event that goes by according to the commentary is an improvement on the previous event, etc. So will London 2012 be amazing? Will London look like the best city on earth? I for one am not a big fan of London, but genuinely looking foward to seeing how much we manage to botch it up.

Grease London 2 12!!!

Will almost certainly be one of, if not the best Olympics for both the athletes and spectators.

Can you please get out of the thread with this positive rubbish, this is for us whingers.

Fed up of people whinging about people being positive.

Better?

 ;frustrated;  Sure would've had all that money if the Olympics wasn't here.

No.

Move to here plz http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=58555.0

Boo to this  thread

:)

Blame Woodsey.

Is this you Mondatoo?
(http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/polopoly_fs/picture_olympic_torch_039_1_1460584!image/735812274.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/735812274.jpg)

Already had Radio 5 whingeing about the Scottish and Welsh not singing the English National Anthem.

 rotflmfao

I'm with u monda

The traffic in Manchester from the Olympics makes me cry

Also don't think it will be as good as chinas Olympics

The traffic in my bit of London has been the quietest I've known it this week.

Thread was obv just a piss take btw, just thought it was pretty com that people moaned about people moaning in a thread titled "How good will it be ?" A fair question but anyone who didn't think it would be so good was basically told not to post. I like the Olympics as I love all Sport but I don't care that it's in the UK, probably could've went to it cheaper if it where in Europe.

Lol yeah drove through south London yesterday, where the torch was knocking about, it was incredible how light the traffic was! Olympics forever please.

FYP  ;)

Quite right too

Team GB, sing the thing Mr Giggs and others

With it's anti Scottish and Welsh verses in it it's hardly a surprise very few Non English will be joining in.
Outdated and same goes if the English were asked to Sing FoS.

Not quite the same with FoS being the Scottish anthem and GSTQ being the British one though...

What are the anti Scottish/welsh verses?

6. Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring
May he sedition hush
And like a torrent rush
Rebellious Scots to crush
God save the King

Pretty sure all the Scottish players in the squad sang it though...

Mr Snowball

"God Save the Queen" is the national anthem of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Like many aspects of British constitutional life, its official status derives from custom and use, not from Royal Proclamation or Act of Parliament. In general only one or two verses are sung, but on rare occasions three.[6] The variation in Britain of the lyrics to "God Save the Queen" is the oldest amongst those currently used, and forms the basis on which all other versions used throughout the Commonwealth are formed; though, again, the words have varied throughout these years.

England (as distinct from the United Kingdom, comprising England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) has no official national anthem of its own; "God Save the Queen" is treated as the English national anthem when England is represented at sporting events (though there are some exceptions to this rule).



Throw off the anti English shackles, sir, and embrace!

That's not an official verse though is it? Not much anti-welsh in it either...

They don't sing it no.  For obvious reason.

'The 1837 article and other sources make it clear that this verse was not used soon after 1745, and certainly before the song became accepted as the British national anthem in the 1780s and 1790s.'

Good decision that.

I like to see sports people sing along to their national anthem but I shan't be getting too upset when they don't.

I'm sure they have their reasons.

In rugby, what anthem do the Lions have played before their games? Does everyone sing that?

Can we get another national anthem?  It's bollocks.  I'd prefer one about the country, like Australia has.

Yeah, Beijing was great for the locals.

No, because we need to appreciate our queen and I know u love that kind of stuff.

Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free,
How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?
Wider still, and wider, shall thy bounds be set;
God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet!

Truth and Right and Freedom, each a holy gem,
Stars of solemn brightness, weave thy diadem.

Tho' thy way be darkened, still in splendour drest,
As the star that trembles o'er the liquid West.

Throned amid the billows, throned inviolate,
Thou hast reigned victorious, thou has smiled at fate.

Land of Hope and Glory, fortress of the Free,
How may we extol thee, praise thee, honour thee?

Hark, a mighty nation maketh glad reply;
Lo, our lips are thankful, lo, our hearts are high!

Hearts in hope uplifted, loyal lips that sing;
Strong in faith and freedom, we have crowned our King!

Yeah, it talks about god and the king - but still a far better national anthem than GSTQ.  At least it's about the country rather than the old bird who is meant to 'reign over us'.

Nah this thread is for the moaners, there is way too much hope and positive stuff in there for them. Plus not enough love for the queen  ;whistle;

Think it was Joe Mercer in his short spell as England Manager who tried to get Land of Hope & Glory adopted as an unofficial anthem. It rang out with much more pride at Wembley than GSOQ ever did.

Back on topic - the Archery qualifying rounds are on today and people have turned up to watch because it shows in the listings as 'Unticketed' which apparently means, 'not open to the public'.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLyBpqaXGBc

I don't recall them having any anthem on the last tour though.
Waste of time generally anyway.
They get hyped up to a peak in the dressing room and the adrenalin's all dissipated by time the game starts (sometimes).

People just have no respect mate, for the moaners that is, grease the Queen.

Just like the Marathon course (apart from the bit that goes into the Olympic park and stadium) is also advertised as 'unticketed' - but meaning free to the public.

did you watch twenty twelve?

I only saw one episode.  Some of the things in that have been unerringly accurate!

Start as you mean to go on :P

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-19013655

Was this the comedy type program that was designed to make people laugh?

Who gives a flying f**k that it's not accurate? It's not designed to educate the masses you massive bell end.

I may have been a little harsh with that previous comment.

Sorry Dan you aren't massive at all.

Do you know what "unerringly accurate" means?

Oops misread. Thought he said inaccurate  ;ashamed;

He's still an average sized bell end though  ;D

:)

Yes, that's because of those bloody slugs!!

I don't why Britain and Ireland put up with such dreary dirges as National Anthems. Some countries have got cracking anthems. The French one is fantastic, closely followed by Germany, while Russia, Italy, US, South Africa and China (and Europe) all have ones that are a pleasure to hear.

I love the Russian one actually

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMZfXN1UOpw

After a couple weeks tolerating him, why is John McEnroe still on my TV?  

Funny how opinions differ. For me McEnroe epitomises everything good about commentary / punditry. 

In the states, he commentates alongside his brother. Double the McEnroe

I thought it only right to report back on some good quality whinging I heard in London yesterday.

Whilst picking up tickets I heard somebody complaining that none of the stewards knew what they were doing and were complete idiots.

They'd told him the start of the bike race was just up there (pointing up the Mall)

But when he'd gone that way they'd turned him back and told him to go back down the Mall because you needed tickets to get any further.

I can't help thinking that there's no evidence here that the stewards don't know what they're doing - but he was massively pissed off with all the incompetence they were 'obviously' showing by - according to his interpretation of this - not knowing where the bike race start was.

Tennis and at Wimbledon I agree, but I just found it really cringeworthy when he was trying to comment on other sports.

Like you said opinions differ.

Olympics are great and momentum is gathering after the tremendous mens gymnastics display.

Why oh why did the BBC start their evening Olympic programme with the '66 World Cup??

Olympics is about a British team but the English bias kicks in yet again

Geo

 :goodpost: ;yellowcard;

Getting sick of the biased coverage.

The Chinese divers who won gold were incred.

Headline? "Tom Daley comes 4th".

Yeah - not enough focus on British team.


Yeah - too much focus on British team.

Just trying to get used to your humour, here...that's a joke, right?

Most people don't know who the "other bloke" is, let alone who the Chinese divers are.

The press have to appeal to a public who can't point to Glasgow on a map of the UK, who consider the XFactor good entertainment and who voted for The Only Way Is Essex to win a BAFTA.

I want completely biased coverage

I want commentators who go nuts when our competitiors achieve medals

Its our home Olympics, a bit of jingoism is not only to be expected but encouraged

As long as its not negative xenophobia, and we celebrate amazing achievements from whichever nation too, fine

Bloody great performance by the men's gymnastics team to get a medal. Loved the impartial and overtly patriot commentary too.

:D

"Where were the Germans?... and frankly, who cares!?"

Brilliant commentary from Barry Davies when the British team won gold in the hockey in Seoul.

Not at all.

I think the Olympics should be a celebration of excellnce in sport.

By all means cheer on the Brits while they've got a chance of winning, but give the winners the plaudits, not the also rans.

We're 1-0 up against the Argies in the men's hockey by the way. Half an hour to go...

So you don't think it OTT to use an opening sequence of the '66 World Cup to begin an evening of swimming as opposed to reruns of say Adlingtons medal winning performances from the last Olympics?

Geo

Ye Shiwen's world record Olympic swim 'disturbing', says top US coach http://gu.com/p/39cjc/tw

Ye winner of the 400 IM at 16yo, beat PB by 5 seconds, new WR

Swam the last leg, 100m freestlye in 28,93

Lochte in the mens equivalent did it in 29.05

Unprecedented, and widely assumed to be hooky.

Regime change is always good to update a national anthem.

from twitter

Phelps breaks a record at 15. It's prodigious. Ye Shiwen breaks a record at 16. It's disturbing. Classy stuff.

"Biased commentary" into YouTube...

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Hp7g1rH3k

Classic

Got to agree here.,
Go more mental than ever when we do something but I watched swimming the other day and they were saying how well we'd done to come 7th when somebody had smashed the field.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9nnnM-__JQ

Geo

I don't get it.

Why should I cheer on someone purely because they happen to have been born in the same Godforsaken island I was?

They aren't representing me. They are representing themselves.

There are members of the British squad I badly want to win - Farah, Greene, Pendleton and Ennis. not because they are British but because they are incredible athletes and seem like really top people.

There are several members I really hope crash and burn: Cavendish has already been chinned, I'm hoping for the same for Idowu, Chambers and Murray.

It was 46 years ago today since the previous biggest sporting event to be held in this city, but that event has now been surpassed - I don't see a problem spending 20 seconds highlighting that.

Personally, I think "OTT" is not the way to describe it

Although today is the 40th anniversary of that achievement, its the wrong choice for Olympics coverage for the reason you state. Its not an achievement by a British team, involving all the British nations

Just some editor not thinking, rather than a slight to others, I would imagine.

Phelps had shown gradual improvement since he was a kid though - this girl has taken a huge chunk off her fastest time in a year.

tbh i dont have enough knowledge of swimming to argue whether she cheated or not

however i did not like the beeb coverage one bit

Understood. Chambers I think I agree with, anyone else I'll cheer them on

I totally agree that the Olympics is about celebration of great sport from whichever nation.

Pushing it a bit not to expect our media to be overly-patriotic though

Lets hope its genuine

5 seconds off a PB in a year?

Beating the male equivalent time in the same event?

Astounding performance.

1000-1 to be legit

Don't start me on National Anthems! (Not a sentence I imagined typing, admittedly...)

This is what the French will sing if they manage to win anything:

Let's go children of the fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny's
Bloody flag is raised! (repeat)
In the countryside, do you hear
The roaring of these fierce soldiers?
They come right to our arms
To slit the throats of our sons, our friends!
Refrain
Grab your weapons, citizens!
Form your batallions!
Let us march! Let us march!
May impure blood
Water our fields!

Went to school with Glenn Kirkham, a couple years older than me.  Abso immense, ran rings past me and everyone else.  Fair to say we won every school hockey match we played.

£10 at 1000-1 please dubai

Kirkham is quality. With both the GB men and women ranked 4th in the world would be excellent if either could get into the medals. Probably more likely for the women than the men.

I've got tickets for the hockey this Friday, only Germany v India and then GB v Pakistan. Excellent stuff.

:) good luck proving it

I am routing for Team GB in everything and want to see as much as possible of them but in the team gymnastics the Chinese team won by like 4 points.  The rest of the field wasn't even separated by 2 points.  They were amazing and got almost no credit at all.  There has to be a balance.

Especially on the beam...  ;marks;

You are such a geek sometimes Boshi   rotflmfao

Crowd booing at Britain being demoted from silver to bronze.

Pathetic.

Understandable though.

It would've been pretty weird had they cheered.

Bleh.  Bit harsh, ott reaction.

A lot of emotion and excitement running through a home crowd.  Initial jubilation of cheering a silver medal and then that being taken away from a man behind a desk (Justified).  Not great to hear, but completely understandable. 

Do you expect them to stay silent, cheer?

Or if they'd started doing the Macarena.

Or if they'd purchased a small semidetached holiday home a short walk from Tenby pier. That would have been really weird.

Also, they weren't booing the Japanese. They were booing the judges who had essentially just decided that the crowd was responsible for the GB silver being lost

Always pretty funny playing with him as the Teachers tactics only consisted off "Pass it to Glenn".

Pretty jealous of your tickets, enjoy.  Hoepfully one of the teams can sneak a medal.

A collective sigh maybe.

People that send abuse on Twitter to athletes that don't win a medal must be the lowest form of pondlife.

Someone tweeted to Tom Daley that he let his dead father down.

I mean really, WTF?

the bloke or more likely child seemed to spend his whole life telling "celebrities" or sportsman to f off and die

there are more serious crimes but i hope he gets locked up

I don't like to be controversial but can you compare and contrast camel? That Hartson comment has always stuck with me.Gulp...post

I don't think there are many sportpeople camel aint slagged off tbh...:)

Having said that, this is a massive overreaction:

 @dorsetpolice

Regarding tweets to @TomDaley1994 - We are aware of the issue and we are actively looking into it.


Surely they should be out catching robbers or something.

Someone would have to do far far worse than what Hartson has done in his career for me to go on a thread about them battling Brain Cancer and call him a dirty thug, I'll leave it at that though.I can see that you haven't mellowed out yet and are sticking by your what I believe were disgusting comments.

Pretty funny that the foreign guest panelists don't get the British humour at all. Linekar took the piss out of Phelps' ears and you could overhear Thorpe saying something along the lines of "Wow, there's no need for that" haha. Few other examples of it today also, pretty com.

Really, thinking about it, this is a terrible trolling post.

Very annoyed with myself I rose to the bait.

Deleted all my responses to it.

Ye's performance is amazing and questionable, but the tactics of both need to be factored in. Lochte timed 4:05.14 and Ye 4:28.43, so he beat her by almost a length after 8 lengths. As they did almost the same time for the free, he was almost a length ahead of her after 6 lengths of the pool. He essentially burned it early and was gassed for the free, whereas her free came off a relatively "slow" breaststroke.

Police intervened after a Twitter 'troll' accused Team GB diver Daley of letting down his late father by finishing outside the medals on Monday.

Daley and his partner, Pete Waterfield, finished fourth in the men's synchronised 10m platform diving final.

Shortly afterwards, Daley retweeted a message from user Rileyy69 which said: "You let your dad down i hope you know that."

Daley responded by tweeting: "After giving it my all... you get idiots sending me this..."

Daley's father Rob died last year from brain cancer.

After the insensitive tweet had provoked a furious reaction on the social networking site, Rileyy69 attempted to apologise.

He then tweeted: "@TomDaley1994 I'm sorry mate i just wanted you to win cause its the olympics I'm just annoyed we didn't win I'm sorry tom accept my apology."

He later added: "please i don't want to be hated I'm just sorry you didn't win i was rooting for you pal to do britain all proud just so upset."

Dorset Police subsequently confirmed they were investigating the incident and an arrest was made on Tuesday morning.

A police spokeswoman said: "A 17-year-old man was arrested by Dorset Police officers in the early hours this morning at a guesthouse in the Weymouth area on suspicion of malicious communications.

"He is currently helping police with their inquiries."

Deputy Mayor of the Olympic Village Duncan Goodhew, a gold and bronze medallist in swimming at the Moscow Olympics in 1980, described the behaviour of the Twitter troll as "appalling".

"It is appalling that people behave that way. Becky Adlington, in fact, suffered probably far worse abuse, as well, if you remember the kerfuffle some years ago," he told ITV's Daybreak.

"I suppose that social media in one sense is fantastic, but turned the wrong way round it is very, very personal and it destroys people's lives.

"So I think people should be much more careful about what they say."

Sky News

Whilst its terrible he tweeted that, it's even more ridiculous he was arrested and is a complete waste of time.

That wasn't all he tweeted though, there were loads of tweets threatening to kill Daley too, so I guess that's more what he's been arrested for.

yes, that is an offence. He wouldn't have been arrested for the Dad tweet, as horrible as it was


Twitter is an interesting one. They temporarily banned an account that criticised NBC's Olympics coverage yesterday

Furthermore the sort of trolling the likes of Adlington and Daley get is quite common on tweitter. Tricky to get an account shut down if someone does it to Joe Bloggs though

If I stand on a street corner at lunchtime and start shouting unpleasant things about people, the police might well arrest me for a public order offence.

Twitter is the new street corner. Yes, people have to type in the web address but it is open to the police to arrest people for sending extremely unpleasant messages. They just won't do it unless it's in the public interest to do so.

National treasure, high profile celeb, being seen to stamp that sort of thing out etc.

It'll be a spot of community service and a fine, but it will more relevantly impact 17 year old chappie's job and education prospects, whatever they were

Just click "BLOCK" and offending tweets disappear.

Daley had thousands of positive, supportive tweets and chose to highlight one attention seeking idiot.

Over sensitive imo.

While I have every sympathy with Tom, and agree with the police action, I'm saddened by the double standards.

So much race hate is spouted online. Look at the reaction to the 'Big Fat Gypsy' programmes on TV chat forums. It's absolutely disgusting, but it's allowed to stand.

I reported a post that had a link to www.burnagypsy.com on facebook but nothing happened.

Apologies for going back several pages but I wanted to comment on this.  I used to feel a bit like this but the more time I spend abroad the more I realise that patriotism and, in this case, rooting for Team GB isn't just about having been "born on the same godforsaken island" but it is about having a pride in a shared culture and everything that being British entails.  I was proud of Danny Boyles opening ceremony in a way that would never have been possible if it had been produced by Quentin Tarantino in Salt Lake City.  For sure there are some of our competitors I don't like as much but I can empathise much more with what they have had to sacrifice and go through to get to where they are and, therefore appreciate it more, than say Usain Bolt or Shiwen Ye.  Without being overly sentimental we have so much to be proud of in this country and the more time I spend away the more I appreciate it and I think the positive expression of that pride in something liek the Olympic games is both natural and positive.

Also they banned the person criticising NBC because that person tweeted an executives email address - I'm more inclined to think it was the email address that he was banned for rather than the criticism.

The BBC coverage is excellent.

But some of the commentators are dire.

Chris Boardman is more boring to listen to than Nigel Mansell.

Hugh Porter is completely clueless, even when all the information is displayed on the screen.

The rowing commentators get too excited too early and their voices get higher and higher pitched as they near the finish. Sounds like their balls are locked in vices.

And don't get me started on Legard.

Agree on Porter

Totally agree on Legard


The sheer enthusiasm of Gary Herbert on rowing is fantastic. A big fan here.

Wonderful to have Barry Davies on the hockey too. Much missed on football in a sea of Mowbray mediocrity and ITV shite all season

It's always a shame watching any cycling on the BBC knowing that Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen will be watching it on the telly at home.

Andy Jamieson and Adrian Moorhouse are very good on the swimming - they have the right mix of commentatiing and just chatting to each other.

If you want a hopeless commentator you should listen to Alan Green doing the rowing on the radio. Admittedly there's not much to describe in rowing but over 6 minutes of 'they need to push, they need to keep going here' becomes drone like.

Sherwen is immense. Definitely one of my favourites on any sport.

I like Jamieson, but Moorhouse is too results orientated. "She's not moving freely today" just because she's in 7th when she should be in third.

I think I'm the only sports fan in the UK who doesn't hate Green. Fergie detests him so he can't be all bad.

I think Mark Foster and James Corden are doing a good job hosting the swimming coverage

I think that Barry Davies may be past it a bit but he is golden compared to the Antipodean gentleman who has been commentating on some of the women's hockey. He is extremely patronising and shows a terrible bias towards the Australian team. They might as well have Phil Kearns commentating.

Barry also does the Heathrow Airport Olympic Report for T3, T4 & T5. Fascinating stuff.

Why on earth are there so many fencing events?

Surely a sword is a sword?

its slightly interesting that the other disciplines came about because they were training aids and they used them so often it morphed into its own discipline.

Three different swords: foil, épée and sabre. Chap I used to know at Uni was one of those there fencists (oddly not even marked on spell-check) and he showed me the swords. They're different sizes and weights.

Certainly no worse than the swimming events. Greatest ever Olympian cos he can swim backwards, forwards and like a praying mantis indeed...

If there were a 150m, a running backwards event and a skipping 100m event, bolt would win those as well.

Redgrave could only get in one boat. No room to split training between boats.

I started off addressing your point but then went off on a frolic of my own. Sorry, Camel!

You need a semi-detached holiday home near Tenby Pier.

I would mind so much if one of the events involved jumping off balconies and swinging from chandeliers while wearing a big floppy hat like in the movies.

How good would this be as a medal event:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JQE9I64TwU

It's good but you're not beating this:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L10fR31jC1w

Also links nicely to the Nottingham Hoods chat from Tikay's thread.

No alternative abodes required

I lolled more than I should have.

The Olympic theme song is absolutely doing my head in.

Did Hugh Porter think the end of the women's Keiren was a lap before it actually was?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18916802

Lol, that is all. /thread.

Murray is flogging this Swiss lad.

Yeah he's getting on a bit. Not won a major for two weeks

Why is this in the Shit thread.  Or are you highlighting a possible Olympic match fixing!!

I just saw Olympics in the thread title and dived right in!

LOL

The most tragic aspect of these Olympics is Louis Smith's haircut.

That Colin Jackson explanation of the 400m was simulcast on CBeebies

But how well did he speak and behave?  Fantastic.

Some lunatic threw a Bottle of Beer just before the Gun for the 100m, landed a few meters behind Lane 5.

Coming to this party a bit late but was it my imagination or during the opening ceremony when the German team came out and the coverage cut to their dignitaries was he not giving a sieg heil Nazi salute??

just checked it..his actually doing it with the left arm..instead of the right arm..is this something different..seems a bit close to me


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video/p00w2r5v

from 2.01.30

First disappointing experience of the games for me.

Went to the springboard diving prelims tonight.

Firstly a bunch of racist Spaniards were sat in front of me, who took on themselves to hurl abuse at the Chinese divers every time they took to the springboard. Which got the evening off to a pretty annoying start,

Secondly, I don't mind clueless spectators (I'm totally clueless about diving), but when they take it on themselves to boo the judges because they don't like them giving Brits a low score (when they had no idea whether it was justified or not) it is pretty ridiculous.

Also, if I had a pound for every time one of the spectators commented on the amount of splash the divers made when they entered the water I'd have a lot of pounds. It was obviously the only bit of diving knowledge they had and they wanted to milk it to the max.

Finally, we had Category A tickets and were absolutely miles away from the divers. Category D must have been out in the car park.

All in all a pretty crap night.

Only fun moment was seeing a German diver doing a backwards version of a bellyflop and scoring 0. The diving equivalent of a golfer doing an air shot I guess.

Is it me? I just don't find Denise Lewis's punditry adds anything.

Sheis so much better than Colin jackson, it is hard to criticise her.

Hmmmm. Disagree.

 Of greater concern tho is this ridiculous set of decisions in the boxing for Azerbaijani fighters. A few months back, BBC reporter had word from an insider that the chaps in charge of boxing had accepted a £9M donation from an Azerbaijani businessman on the understanding that there would be 2 golds in London.

Incredibly, it looks like there might be two Azerbaijani boxers with medals round their necks. Fair to say they have won some controversial fights already.

 If they do both win, the sad thing is their victories will always be doubted.

Agreed she's a step up from Colin Jackson but she's still dire (both babble and spout utter garbage even when describing 'their own' events). Could be worse, thankfully we're no longer subjected to the muppetry of Gunnell.

Be nice to have a guest appearance from Steve Ovett if he's over for the games, I used to enjoy what he had to say.

I was 100% wrong about this.

I've become ingrained that flag waving patriotism is associated with England hooligans or worse the BNP and EDL.

I think decent people have reclaimed the flag during these Olympics.

And the thought of Daily Mail readers cheering home Mo Farah makes m so happy.

I'm proud to be British for the first time in my adult lifetime.

 ;applause; ;applause; ;applause;

Fair play to you, sir.

Trust Colin Hendry to spoil it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19242736

LOL - wasn't it Colin Lloyd......