Timing, cancellara, and the Scottish referendum

[coinneach]

I tenuous link, I must admit.
I'm one of these sad characters who sees everything though cycling eyes.
So while everyone else in Scotland is searching for meaning in the referendum result, I see it like a cycling race.
Most recently, probably, the first stage of the tour de France.
Cancellara didn't have a chance, he was never quoted as someone who could win.
Yet, with 1500 meters to go, he suddenly hit the front!
He could have won!!!
But all the big guns, the sprinter teams and GC guys had other ideas: he'd gone too early and they had time to regroup, forge alliances, swallow him up and beat him soundly.
So, sometimes you win because you are the best and sometimes you win because you just happen to time it right.
Salmond didn't manage, but at least he gave it a go.
I don't like him or support him, but I'm proud of him for trying, like cancellara.

 

[laurel1969]

I tenuous link, I must admit.
I'm one of these sad characters who sees everything though cycling eyes.
So while everyone else in Scotland is searching for meaning in the referendum result, I see it like a cycling race.
Most recently, probably, the first stage of the tour de France.
Cancellara didn't have a chance, he was never quoted as someone who could win.
Yet, with 1500 meters to go, he suddenly hit the front!
He could have won!!!
But all the big guns, the sprinter teams and GC guys had other ideas: he'd gone too early and they had time to regroup, forge alliances, swallow him up and beat him soundly.
So, sometimes you win because you are the best and sometimes you win because you just happen to time it right.
Salmond didn't manage, but at least he gave it a go.
I don't like him or support him, but I'm proud of him for trying, like cancellara.

Alec Salmon.

Who'd trust a man named after a fish?

Wonder what his successor, Nicola Sturgeon will be like.