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Listed below are comments made by patty77 between Tuesday, 19th August 2008 and Wednesday, 20th August 2008.

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Latin fancy lights my fire 10:38pm on 20 Aug 2008 The Olympics are essentially meant to be a place for amateur sportsmen to compete on a worldwide stage. To be honest, it's arguable whether any sportsperson who competes at the olympics is "amateur" in their ability to compete at such a high level. The issue most have with football is that it's flooded with money, and is on no level an amateur sport. The same with tennis and golf. I don't think those sports should be at the olympics because of the amount of money involved in them, but I suppose all sports are like that now.

Sport isn't a competition anymore, it's a business, and where the olympics are concerned, it's politics.
Capello springs surprise with Terry choice 4:20pm on 19 Aug 2008 I don't think Terry was the best choice for the captaincy. Before selecting his captain, Capello himself said the he not only wanted a good leader and a good player to take the armband, but someone who was a role model to others in the game and England fans. Terry's aggressive behaviour towards referees, in my opinion, doesn't make him the best role model available to Capello. In fact, one of the better candidates may have been one of the lower profile players, such as Barry (I'm not even a Villa fan).

If the FA is going to persist with it's respect towards referees campaign it has to lead from the front, and the selection of Terry as captain goes against that. I'm a fan of Terry's ability and leadership skills, but I don't agree with his behaviour towards referee's, and anyone who says that he's only done it once or twice doesn't pay enough attention to football.

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