Le Tour 2018
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@majorrage said in Le Tour 2018:
@mikethesnow said in Le Tour 2018:
Classic impartial reporting from the BBC
Thomas and Poulter
Wales to a tea.
Countrymen wins one the great annual truly global sporting events; finds something to bitch about.
Just enjoy it man, colossal achievement!!
Oh I am.
Posted the pics before he won
Mate tweeted the Beeb and they changed it to Welshman π
Today this Welshman is British.
Last year when he fell off his bike he was Welsh.
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I'm happy to see him win, just Sky is still too strong. And I want to make it clear that this is not their fault.
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@wairau said in Le Tour 2018:
to anyone saying Sky is too strong, and it is boring, I say: The All Blacks
do you say the same thing about our All Blacks when they win all the time?
Slight difference in that a big part of Sky's dominance comes down to money. Some view it as an unfair advantage even if there are no rules about it and others are free to find the same levels of funding if they can.
It doesn't help that Brailsford is an unlikeable tosspot and when called out about dodgy behaviour they 'lose and forget' evidence. -
@crucial @Wairau I'd say the bigger reason is that there are at least 4 million people that are very strong fans of the All Blacks, whereas the cycling teams do not engender that much emotion and certainly not with a such a wide swathe of people. I mean, who has allegiance to a corporate sponsored, made up team?
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@catogrande said in Le Tour 2018:
@crucial @Wairau I'd say the bigger reason is that there are at least 4 million people that are very strong fans of the All Blacks, whereas the cycling teams do not engender that much emotion and certainly not with a such a wide swathe of people. I mean, who has allegiance to a corporate sponsored, made up team?
Chelsea and Man Utd seem to go ok
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@mikethesnow said in Le Tour 2018:
@catogrande said in Le Tour 2018:
@crucial @Wairau I'd say the bigger reason is that there are at least 4 million people that are very strong fans of the All Blacks, whereas the cycling teams do not engender that much emotion and certainly not with a such a wide swathe of people. I mean, who has allegiance to a corporate sponsored, made up team?
Chelsea and Man Utd seem to go ok
Yet 20 years ago you'd never meet a Chelsea "fan". Abramovich sells his stake and they may well go back to that state.
When I was a kid there were loads of Liverpool "supporters" and now there's lots of Manchester City "supporters" -- many of whom couldn't place Manchester to the right country, let alone county.
It's a combination of billionaire egos and massive Ponzi scheme.
All Black fans follow them through thick and thin, and don't change allegiance. There are quite a few real Chelsea fans like that, but not the millions who purport to support them.
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@mikethesnow said in Le Tour 2018:
@catogrande said in Le Tour 2018:
@crucial @Wairau I'd say the bigger reason is that there are at least 4 million people that are very strong fans of the All Blacks, whereas the cycling teams do not engender that much emotion and certainly not with a such a wide swathe of people. I mean, who has allegiance to a corporate sponsored, made up team?
Chelsea and Man Utd seem to go ok
If only I could remember which bunch of corporate fluffybunnies theyβd Sold out to this close season, I would of course have corrected your irroneous names.