Without trying to sound too racist, does no body else think its a bit wierd that the biggest celebrated sporting event lately is India vs Pakistan in the cricket? Its had more cover than when ENGLAND won the six nations aperbag: Just saying.
For what it's worth m8 I agree with you. Same old shite on the TV just switched it off and listening to Biker FM :cheers:
A lot more people (UK residents) are celebrating this than any other sporting event that has occurred for a while, when neither team is English :S
How many more people, exactly? How many people are 'celebrating' the cricket? How many people have been 'celebrating' other recent sporting events? If you don't have those figures, how can you make the claim? Has the cricket received more news airtime on television than any other sporting event? If so, what are the figures? Has it received higher viewer ratings? Has it received more column inches in the national press? Are there people camped out in your street wildly celebrating every run scored? You need to be more specific as to why you have this perception. As far as I can tell, it's entirely subjective from your personal perspective, and therefore merely conjecture. In fact, it's the opposite to my subjective perspective: Having watched the news daily, I am aware that England won the Six Nations, but (prior to this thread) I wasn't aware that India have been playing Pakistan. Don't get me wrong: You may be right, but it's rather an irrelevant proposition for analysis unless you can verify it somehow. Nevertheless. Let's say it is 'true', for the sake of argument. Personally, I'm only ever really interested in watching or celebrating motor sport (and I'm hardly fanatical about that). But if I had to take some interest in international rugby or cricket (or football, for that matter), I'd always choose the cricket regardless of which nations happen to be playing. Rugby to me just seems to be constructive violence subject to endless stoppages and unfathomable rules. I've tried many a time, but I still have absolutely no idea what's going on, or why. Yes, cricket is equally no stranger to complicated rules, but you don't actually need to understand all of those rules to follow the game. It's fundamentally very simple (hit the ball and run). It's also very easy to leave the action and pick it up again (maybe days) later without any great detriment to your comprehension of how the game is progressing. Perhaps most importantly: As a live spectator, it makes for an excellent occasion/venue to spend a relaxing Summers day sitting out drinking lots of cold beer As far as actually caring what happens (who wins) and 'celebrating' it: I have no personal interest in the result of India vs Pakistan, but then I'm equally indifferent to the fortunes of the England rugby and football teams. Especially the football team: I couldn't imagine a less worthy bunch of overpaid, underperforming, uninspiring, invariably medeocre losers.
Erm..ok. Well it was merely an observation of the local news, facebook status' and so many college students that had been talking about it non stop. As for figures? I’ve not a clue, though (from what I’ve seen and heard) it appears to be a much more favoured topic of conversation and interest than England was when we won the six nations. Choice of sports isn’t what I’m getting at, it’s more the patriotism. As an English community I personally expected English sports teams to be spoke about more than India and Pakistan but from what I’ve been hearing it’s the other way around :/ Maybe it’s just because it’s the only thing on at the minute that’s a big thing (i.e. it’s a cricket world cup) but in my personal opinion it appears as though the one match has gained more interest than any English event for a while. I enjoy playing cricket and it’s not bad to watch either, but I’d like to see what % of the local community support England. I’m not basing this on facts, just opinion.
I know what your saying matey but its nothing more than there being nothing else going on and with england having such a large Indian / Pakistani community its bound to be popular
The most I saw was a piece on the news the other day. I take it where you live there is a large Indian/Pakistani community? Maybe they just want to celebrate, like it's a derby day, bragging rights ect ect. :thumbup: We are a weird breed us English, 95% mongrels infact this series was really good except for Eddie Izzard :thumbdown: :thumbsup:
I'm not, nor have ever been, patriotic when it comes to sport, especially when it comes to sports that don't interest me in the first place. Many other nations tend to play football in a far more entertaining manner than England (from a spectators perspective), so I'd say there are many non-England games far more worthy of my attention than your average England game. Probably the only patriotism I'd show in relation to sport is with the Ashes, because, well, it's an age old contest against the Aussies (which is basically a long distance derby anyway). But even then, I'm only interested because the games (of recent years, at least) tend to be genuinely entertaining.
The cricket world cup is a major event for South Africans, regardless of who's playing. Edit Just thought I'd add that those two teams you mentioned are usually near the top of the world rankings.
Ramble ramble, I'm right you're wrong. Honestly, I agree with you. It's political correctness gone mad.
I don't understand, why's it political correctness gone mad? It's a major sporting event that's held once every four years, and is very big in cricket playing countries/ communities. Anyway in case you didn't know; India won the world cup - well done lads. If it annoyed you, then you can rest in the knowledge that it will only be shown on the telly again in four years time.
I'm with Paul on this, I don't see how p.c. has anything to do with it. We are an un patriotic nation as a whole so if we don't decide to celebrate Englands sporting triumphs well that's upto us and then we moan about it lol. Take the royal wedding for example, hardly anyone is interested that I know of and if I'm honest I think people are more looking forward to an extra day or two off work, is this p.c. that we aren't celebrating? Anyway imo the majority of sports people are over rated and over paid, the real heroes are in action on operations around the world, risking their lives and health on a daily basis, protecting our right of free speach and democracy.
Right or wrong Matty, debate is good. We are all entitled to an opinion, as in the words of my old screw in depot " Opinions are like arseholes everybody has got one" lol
Yep, it's all very complicated... Did anyone realise that England got to the cricket world cup quarter finals? Imagine if England got to the quarter finals in the soccer world cup? Parties all round no doubt. Oh and South Africa were at the top of the table in group B above India and England but were beaten by New Zealand in the quarter finals.
