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COMSUBBBS Posts: 2974 Location: Liverpool, England | Subject: He Played for England - NSR There was a time in living memory when the honor of playing for, or representing your country in sport, was the highest accolade your nation could bestow. To meet any of those who had done so was considered an unusual experience and honour for the average person in the street. Americans will think of baseball heroes, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle and those in other sports like Jim Thorpe, Jessie Owens, Mark Spitz, Rocky Marciano, and Cassius Clay as the epitome of true sportsmen. It was with great pride that British sportsmen once pulled on the England jersey with its three rampant lions badge to take on the best in the world at soccer or cricket. In their glory days they held down regular working jobs and their contribution to the sport was a part-time but burning passion. The pay was an unremarkable pittance and they usually had to personally finance their passage to the overseas nations that they were playing against. As far as cricket was concerned all the players like the greatest fast bowler, Harold Larwood had to personally pay their return sea fares to Australia and lose four months earnings, in his case, as a coalface miner. I will narrow it down to soccer which is the game I know best. The true greats of the game, Frank Swift, Stanley Matthews, Dixie Dean, Tom Finney, and numerous others all ended their days working in heavy industry without the benefits of any monetary rewards from the sport in which they had all excelled. Fast forward to today when every footballer in the English Premier League is a multi-millionaire, regardless in many cases, of their much-overrated talent. All cosseted overpaid spoilt individuals who continually complain and bitch about their conditions of employment, and then childishly refuse to represent their country for whatever petty pretext they can come up with. Yes, there was a time in days of yore when people could with great respect and admiration say with pride of a truly dedicated and talented footballer - he played for England. Now it means nothing to these overpaid, overrated prima-donnas of the game, that a supporting public pay vastly inflationary prices of admission to watch every weekend. Pedro  | ||
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COMSUBBBS Posts: 3667 Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: RE: He Played for England - NSR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61TMtH3Qw4s Edited by GaryKC 2018-11-21 1:03 PM (people today.jpg) Attachments ----------------  people today.jpg (139KB - 604 downloads) | ||
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