Another boring old opinion piece in The Sun on lessons football could learn from the Olympics. What's the point of having lots of different columnists when they all spout the same tired old horse-shit.
This is my opinion piece on what we can learn from the Olympics. Except it's not aimed at footballers. It's aimed at journalists.
During the Olympics they've ignored the negative (which their has been, from bad sportsmanship, doping, booing of referees from crowds, heckling of them by players and suchlike) and the bad, concentrating instead on all the positives to come from the Games. It's no wonder that at the end of it they can tell us all how brilliant it was and how its a lesson for us all.
Perhaps if during the next football season when Rooney swears, journalists choose to ignore it and concentrate instead on how brilliant he is at football and how great his enthusiastic attitude to the game is; if they concentrate on the majority of the crowd who enjoy the game and a healthy rivalry with the opposition fans instead of acres of print on the odd racist in the crowd; perhaps if they concentrate on reporting on games instead of belittling referees' decisions by constantly looking at them throughout match reports; perhaps if they do all this, when it finishes they'll be able to look back at a season that was wholly positive and all smiles.
Sod that though. I'll take it all as part of the drama and the entertainment of the football season. Bring it on.
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