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Originally posted by Sydney Steve:
So I thought you may be interested to know that the following response came up when I typed in "English Sporting Triumphs" ..
Your search - English sporting triumphs - did not match any documents.
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As Captain Mainwaring said often in Dad's Army about young Pike "You stupid boy" no wonder your search was fruitless due I submit to your erroneously putting that three word phrase inside quotation marks to needlessly limit the serch but google obviously found no web page with that exact sequence, now if you search instead for plain (unquoted)
English Sporting Triumphs google finds some 104,000 reults.(admittedly not all specifically about English triumphs
John Fowles
Including these thoughts from the oddly named site:-
http://board.dogbomb.co.uk/archive/i...p/t-26386.html
Why do the
English gloat over victories past...
Its the same through all sports with Colin mcRae being the 95 world champion or Mansell in F1 or Frank "panto dame" Bruno in boxing.
Stupid amounts of pressure is piled on our
Sporting heroes to live up to these past glories and when they fail (Tiger Tim?) we go to town on them.......and......
Every country remembers their sporting
Triumphs (failing having any,they remember a goal they scored against Holland once),we`re no different to any other country in that respect
[ September 17, 2005, 08:43: Message edited by: johnfowles ]