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oh look, another "lets kick George Best now that he is dead" post. |
Sorry if ive upset you Dibble this was not intended as a dig at GB just the hype over a footballer.
This is a small peice from todays Mail by Stephen Glover and his title for his article [If GB is our hero,god help us]
[even if he had been an upstanding citizen,he was ,in the end only a footballer,and i would like to live in a country (and think i did once) in which the death of an outstanding sportsman was treated proportionately.
footballers however famous ,however brilliant ,do not define the greatness of a nation.
our truly great people are writers,scientists,artists,statesmen and warriors,whose actions or works have left us with an inspiring memorial.
they should be our real heros,and until 20 or 30 years ago they were .
since then we have taken leave of our senses.before you say 'its the modern world' let me assure you that it is'nt.
I can think of no great country -not France or Germany or Italy or Russia or even the United States- which would treat the death of a sportsman as though he were a national colossus,far above a great poet or a Nobel Prize winning scientist or an Heroic former leader.
What is with us?our media are partly to blame.News-papers including this one,cleared many pages outside their sporting sections.
television and radio went mad. we helped to make GBs death what it was.but it is difficult to believe that we were shouting into a void.
in the end GB is deified not by an over excited BBC or even a pious looking Tony Blair struggling to find the most sycophantic words,but by people who have been encouraged to look for greatness in a footballer.
Sorry Dibble but there is no law against having a different opinion from the sheep im just glad that someone else sees this from another view point.
ian