"What have the Romans done for us?"

[lolly]

Originally posted by England987
This was posted on a rugby discussion forum, ...

(The team he is talking about is Wales, who lost against the mighty New Zealand team and the mighty England team in the World Cup. They didn't lose by as wide a margin as they thought they would, so they were celebrating it as a win, and now they think they are a good team! Pathetic how they have to resort to celebrating when their team loses.)

I don't see a problem with them celebrating a loss. It's called good sportsmanship.

There's such thing as bad losers and good losers, I believe that it shows strong character to acknowledge the loss, celebrate it, and begin anew for the next world cup campaign.

l.

[ninecats]

The best thing to do in cases like this is :

Congratulations to England, the best rugby team
in the world.

All the best.

[DruidSmith]

...whining Wellington-boot-wearing wimps with no worth to the world. Heard it all many times already.

Interesting book:

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg.../-/0609809997/

[ninecats]

Personally I admire England for celebrating their
victories in the World Cup or the Six Nations and
not just for one match lost not by a wide margin.

The former makes the team competitive, the latter
makes the team available to lose again. It's a
loser's mentality.

Imagine my football team losing to England ( and
any other team ) just 1-0 or 2-1 and so on. We would
never celebrate that. It would be a defeat at any rate.

We still remember the last final in Holland 2000.
We lost to France by just a golden goal. We arrived
second in the European Cup but nobody celebrated.
It would be a loser's mentality and it's not for
that, that we won 3 World Cups in the past and England
won one in football and one in rugby. The only team
in that area which win European and World competitions
is usually England. It's a fact. If I'm wrong, let me
know of course. It's necessary you forget the past
oppressions. Then I'm sure Scotland, Wales, Ireland
will have better chances to win the major competitions.
And not just against England. That's inferiority complex.
It's the Cultural Cringe. Just forget them both.

Lycka till. Slainte.