Sporting thoughts...

Current mood: PUNCHING....
Category: PUNCHING.... Sports

After the golden euphoria of the UKs Olympic performances, today's been marked by the kind of sporting failure the UK public more often loves...


First it was the multi-million pound footballers only just beating the part time Andorrans..

Andorra is a principality...

IT'S A FUCKING TAX HAVEN THAT CONSISTS OF LITTLE MORE THAN 1 SINGLE MOUNTAIN AND YET OUR WORLD CLASS MULTI-MILLIONAIRES STRUGGLED TO BEAT THEM 2-0....


Then it was Amir Khan being stuck on the canvas by an unknown Columbian inside 30 seconds..

Amir has been on a golden carpet ride since his boxing silver in the Athens Olympics.

18 fights 18 wins

He's been held up as being the acceptable face of Islam (his Dad wears the Union Flag as a suit)

He worships Allah - but talks with a Bolton accent and doesn't think about blowing shit up....

He appears a genuinely good guy who's been brought up lovingly well.

And he can definitely PUNCH!!!


But he doesn't like to get punched...


There's a fragility about him - a Bambi like nervousness.

Big deer eyes..

And after a few good shots from the Columbian, he was on the floor...COMPLETELY OUT!!


Compare Amir with the best pound for pound fighter Floyd Mayweather Junior

Floyd used to get the crap beaten out of him by his Middleweight Professional father.

Floyd has a naivety about him - but it's the kind that's come from having his childhood stolen by a stupidly vicious dad - turning him into a BIG champion...


Has Amir suffered that???

I don't think so..


Boxing's an odd sport - a successful rise relies on the skills of the promoters and trainers PICKING the correctly timed opponents

Other sports have governing bodies who do that for you...

One wrong opponent and that is quite often that...

Last night, Khans people ballsed it up BIG TIME!!


To succeed in the really tough games like boxing or cycling, you have to have suffered hugely against your will, or REALLY ENJOY PAIN!!!

You can't cycle up mountains effectively unless there's demons chasing your soul or you love the sheer fucking torture of it...

The good mountain cycling men are generally eccentric lunatics and they often die young...

Marco Pantani died on Valentines day in a hotel called The Rose.

He was 34.

He died of a Cocaine overdose..

You have to ingest a SHITLOAD of cocaine to overdose..


In all sports, once you get beyond a certain level it becomes about mental soul strength...

Has Khan got it???


The UK track cyclists have got it.

Perhaps the key difference between the winning track cyclists from Olympic Wonderland Beijing and the loosing former Olympic boxer, is that the track cyclists got more or less nothing from nobody until they'd reached the absolute top of their game...

Those guys and girls are all on very small money - most of them could get paid more for doing something else far MORE NORMAL, but they're cycling for the love of the sport and the buzz they get from it...

When they win a few gold medals they've reached the peak and THEN they get paid..

But Khan won an Olympic Silver!!

The Olympics mean nothing in Boxing


It's 2008, and these days, sponsorship comes in very early...

MONEY $£$£$££ MONEY $£$$££$$

It doesn't affect the true greats - but too many spend, and do the charity functions before they've really done anything that special...


YOU CAN SEE IT IN THEIR EYES...


How many times do professional sportsmen look to be uninterested.

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