Bavarianrider said:
You guys never heared of the "British inferiority complex"
That's quiet a common phrase.
Not hating or something. iam sure one of the British poster can comment on that. It's just a fact that especially british media tries to overcome the "we have lost our empire" with extrme overhyping of rather useless things. Such as sportsmen.
If Wiggo was Swedish he wouldn get half the afme and no one would think he is the inavoidable Tour winner.
If David Beckham was Swedish, nobody would have ever consiedered him an elite player.
Our media tend to exaggerate everything. When things are going right, it's world domination on the horizon. When things go wrong, we say that it's typical Britain, never winning anything. Mark Cavendish has had a lot of press over the last few years for actually being a
winner - the implication being that we don't really expect our athletes to be world-beaters. If you think we're guilty of optimism, try spending
I David Beckham was Swedish, perhaps not, but Beckham is famous as a celebrity as much as a footballer - his fame rests on his looks, a wife who was a superstar and a bit of over-hyping. A Swedish equivalent of him is Fredrik Ljungberg - another good-looking man perhaps more famous than his talent deserves.