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Education of Team GB is a hot issue - at the beginning of August British Olympic Association chair Lord Moynihan said it was "wholly unacceptable" that half of Team GB's gold medallists in Beijing four years ago were privately educated. It's at an early stage but the odds appear to have improved: so far 32% of Team GB's medals are from privately educated athletes. From todays Guardian

You read the John Robb one?...its pretty good too. Hes a journo who was there at the beginning so he's pretty much adding himself to the "Roses legend TM" but its a good yarn.

I was there....never even seen a bootleg of it on any format, but there again I've never really been into live bootlegs in general. Is it easy to get hold of?..

So she's done two years in the commons....had anyone heard of her before that?....thought not. David Cameron: "Am sure she'll be rememebered fondly by all her constitiuents as a self regarding,bat-eared tory cunt bag"...

The only athelete not to run under 10 secs last not was Asafa Powell, and he pulled up. The four who finished 2nd-5th all ran personal best times for the event, buit were still not able to get close to Bolt. They reckon in the West African genes/body/bone structure that is partucularly suited to sprinting...same as its the West Africans' make up that makes them good at distance races (Mo Farah is from Somalia). You dont see many top class black swimmers mind...not sure why that is...

24 Australia 1127 http://www.bbc.co.uk...edals/countries

I saw a doc once where muso Howard Goodall reckoned the Lennon and McCartney are/were the last great folk songwriters in the traditional English style. He reckoned they almost subconciously heard what was the last knockings of a long musical history and adapted it for a modern ear. He explained it all musically, which was lost on me to say the least, but when you mentioned the nursery rhyme thing it reminded me that beyond all the quavers/semi quavers etc that he may have had a point.

Wait till Wolfy gets a load of this later this morning.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19078494

Looks like he could still run even time though We moved to Scotland a couple of months before he won the gold...remember seeing the photo finish shot on the front of the paper the next morning and the old man carefully putting it in a draw for posterity..fuck knows if theyve still got it like, but its the thought that counts

If the moon landings didnt happen, and it was all a big conspiracy, its surely in human nature that somebody in the last 43 years involved in the conspiracy wouldve let it slip that it was a 6th form science project all along?...and lets hear an estimate of how many were "in" on it in the first place? I'll start you off.... every government on the planet, the worlds media,NASA etc etc And the same goes for everything else you "dont understand"...how many people do you think are involved in covering all this shit up? go on, take a guess...

Agree about Floyd, criminally overrtated,usually by those whose lives are controlled by a plant. Cream for me are brilliant, and I appear not to be as well versed in mid-late 60s psychedelia as your good self but you cant compare Disreali Gears with Magical Mystery Tour man! Thats like comparing Public Enemy with Carly Simon

For some reason it was cool to hate anything Paul Weller did for a decade...The Style Council and all his early solo stuff were slated to fuck by those "in the know"...till the mid nineties when he suddenly became cool again. The Style council were a great "singles" band, they all seemed good to me, dont think I got any of their albums though. Think Weller lost it when he hooked up with those cock ends Ocean Colour Scene

In other words if it hasnt got a poodle perm type mullet thing going on you aint listening?

How much doc?...did you have to sell a kidney?? When are they for?

Last 3 cds purchased....Simple Minds,Chris Rea, Dire Straights.....my totally cool teenage self now fuckin hates me Dire Straights especially....remove the one with Sting on it and the fuckin walk of life from "Brothers in Arms" and its a magical piece of work. The title track alone is stunning. Think I hid my sister's copy of it at the the time to stop her playing "the fuckin walk of life" over and over again.

The fantastically named Ranomi Kromowidjojo......won gold last night....fine set of shoulders on her....swimming finsihes soon so they'll all be off shagging fuck out of each other for the rest of their stay in the Olympic village....am not jealous or anything like...

I'm not saying he wasnt, but there was a major turnaround in opinion of him in the last couple of months based on his good form. Before that.....the one that springs to mind is Chelsea at home where he was widely condemned for not being able to out jump Drogba for one of their goals, before christmas and for the entire previous season he was generally classed as "shite". As I say, theres some short memories on here.An old truism goes "form is temporary, class is permanent" but for the vast majority of his career here he was mostly viewed as classless on here. Would anyone really be pleased if Tiote was sold and we signed no one to replace him and Perch got an extended run in the side?

Sell them both for 40mill and its two years champions league money without having to qualify for it

Bramble could look like the Black Bobby Moore at times. Some short memories on here mind. If a top player leaves before the end of the month and is replaced "from within the present squad" the moaning on here will make Loose Women look like a debate at the Oxford Union

Lille play hard ball. Who'd have thunk it? We'll end up giving them another couple of million for Cabaye after all...

The almost unanimous verdict of Perch's abitlies last season was that, apart from half a dozen games, he was fuckin shite. A slightly more adaptable Titus Bramble if you like. I think theres some re-writing of history going on here.

So is Prince Phillip on some Pacific islands but I wouldnt play that cunt in the centre of the park either

Would you agree with that?...

If you want to be pendantic, Real Madrid didnt play a left midfielder when he was in his pomp, he did 2 jobs in one. One of the fastest players ever to put a pair of boots on. The defensive side of his game was almost entirely about using that speed to make up for being out of posistion half the time. So its difficult to say if he's the greatest left back ever, but 3 champions leagues and 4 la ligas with Real Madrid suggests he wasnt a mug.

I'd rather listen to Claire Balding talk about horse racing than any of the Motd malingerers talk about football. And I love football. We're in with a chance of another gold in the ladies rowing today in the double skulls. Katherine Grainger, who is looking to get gold in this event to add to her 3 olympic silvers from previous games, was yesterday described as a "gigantic leabian" by one of the lads in our office who used to row at the same club as her.