This is treachery of the highest order

[dismalswamp]

There's no avoiding it. CAPTAIN of your club leaving to join your main rivals (footballing in recent history, not historical) is bang out of order. The sheer class of the Olympians, slogging their guts out for f**k all cash puts football to shame. I hope the fatally flawed business model comes crashing down.

[Classic Jorge]

And, seriously, is there a more f**ked business model than the Olympic one? An event that takes so much money, £10bn in the last instance, to put on it can only be held every four years.

That's not even touching the more pertinent issue of funding the competitors, many of whom spend the interval of four years competing in front of crowds in the low hundreds, if that.

[Brentwood]

There were convicted drug cheats performing, won went missing and his coach didn't know where he was for a week, a group of African athletes have failed to return to their country so they're now here illegally, there was match fixing in the badminton...

The main reason they seem so shiny and clean compared to the worst of our footballers is that before the olympics, not one of them was famous enough for the press to start digging dirt on

This is quite an amusing listen. Rob Beasley completely loses his cool on TS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU7MDz0152k

[Classic Jorge]

Ace

To be honest, I just think it's your average hard of thinking man-in-the-street who lap up every montage and pleasantry about the olympic stuff the n regurgitate their BBC approved opinions, thinking it makes them somehow sound interesting, clever or original. It doesnt.

[Brentwood]

to get a reaction

You just have to find a story in the paper that's clearly nonsense and manufactured by Max Clifford (e.g. Simon Cowell photographed having a relationship with a female model), or a member of 1 Direction having a relationship with a TV presenter who's looking for work