Are you really equating athletic prowess with the ability to invent a sport? You think the correlation between the two is obvious and intuitive? I'd argue otherwise.Originally Posted by Burney
I'm very amused by the idea that - despite apparently being so unathletic - we gave the world most of its biggest sports and indeed the very concept of organised sport in its modern sense.
WES really can be such a spastic when he puts his back into it.
In fact, that was always the British stereotype, great at inventing them, terrible at playing them. Tennis being a great example. But you could add cricket (0 world championships despite countries with much smaller populations winning the majority of them, and rugby union where Australia and NZ despite having a combined population slightly more than half of England's, have won five WCs to England's one.
Perhaps you chaps should try looking at some data and actually thinking for a change.
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