Nah, not having any of that pretentious *******s. Golf in the UK has far too much of that attitude for my taste. Which may be why young people are abandoning it in record numbers.Originally Posted by IUFG
The British Open. Nowt wrong with that. It's my second favourite of the four. Masters, British Open, US Open and then the PGA nonsense which shouldn't really qualify imo.
No, it's The Open, nothing snobby about it. Ridicules that the US have 3 majors
It's not pretentious bóllocks to refer to The FA as The FA is it? Or do you call it the English FA?*
Neither is it to refer to The Open as The Open.
* The others seem to include their country in their title
www.fff.fr/
www.cbf.com
www.knvb.nl/
www.rfef.es/
www.figc.it
and of course www.scottishfa.co.uk/
www.thefa.com/
“Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.”
Not forgetting of course the FAI.
You lot are very pretentious and arrogant all the same though I do agree with you, it's just The Open.
'Us lot' were just very good at inventing sports back in the day, then becoming shít at them.
“Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.”
The Jockanese invented Golf, you can't disown them one second and then claim them as yours next.
Football I will give you though I do believe the Chinese are now trying to claim it as theirs.
See: Murray, A
Trusay, sw. It is them that want to disown the UK.*
* I'd happily let that happen just to shut up thon wee Jimmy Krankie lookalike, Nicola Sturgeon
“Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.”
As Dara Ó Briain points out in his excellent book on the English (Tickling the English) we didn't really invent sports merely unified certain ones under a set of Laws - games similar to rugby, football etc existed all over the world
Last edited by Luis Anaconda; 06-18-2018 at 01:24 PM.
Yeah there is. There are many Open Championships in many countries and every country prefaces theirs with the country name to distinguish them. Calling the British Open as The Open makes it sound like it is somehow better. People like to deny it but we all know it's true.
Mind you, I would actually agree that it is the best of the Open Championships, but that's just my opinion. The pretense I refer to is rife in golf in the UK however. Gentlemen must wear a jacket in the clubhouse after 4pm blah, blah, blah...
Can't stand that nonsense.
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