posted Feb 23, 2007

Hi Vlad where have you been?
Missed your "sense of humour" on the old site.
Hows the the once yearly training sessions going and are you ready to break 18s for the 100m any time soon?
Crikey feels like the old BBC forum for a minute.
Hows your friend Backley?

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posted Feb 24, 2007

backley is an idiot, he is still trying to fool people into thinking he was a top class athlete. unfortunately i suffered a heart attack whilst getting off my backside to get the tv remote so the training sessions are now on the back burner.

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posted Feb 24, 2007

Dash Vlad am sorry to hear that.
I am sure Backley will be pleased by your adoration of him?
Hope you are well enough to reach the tv remote?
Am sure you will return to run sub 18 s when they fit you with a pacemaker!

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posted Feb 25, 2007

i wouldnt listen to vlad,he always comes out with a load of rubbish

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posted Feb 26, 2007

coming from a guy who feels a player that plays in a pub league should be given international recognition ?? you need to lay off the drugs or you will end up like steve backley

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posted Mar 15, 2007

there is a huge difference between england and sweden and i don't think it's to do with money or lack of exercise with uk kids.... in sweden people are much more relaxed and trusting of each other and people participating in voluntary work with young people don't have to jump through hoops to help out. There is not the same proprotion of people who harm kids, and volunteers, teachers, youth workers etc are recruited on trust and the fact that they have a good heart. Workers and volunteers are often alone with kids and the swedish population see nothing weird in this.
Also kids themselves are trusted more to transport themselves to and from venues as young as 9 years old, parent do not spend their whole lives transporting there kids around, and the public transport system is very good at getting people around.
Don't bother looking at Sweden's sport system, look at their social infrastructure and community sprirt, look at the way young people are brought up to be truly independent and responsible for themselves and others, and find a way to return England to the trusting ways of the last generation, because that is where success lies.

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posted Apr 24, 2007

This is a very valid point. A key step that we should take in the UK though is to ensure schools are funded effectively so that they are not forced to sell off playing fields to developers. State schools in the UK are finding it harder and harder to provide adequate sports facilities to pupils.

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posted May 3, 2007

Well, inventing a time machine and going back to stop councils selling off school playing fields and every bit of undeveloped green space outside recognised public parks would be a good start.

But the biggest tragedy of British childhood these days is mentioned in Forthviews post, the British media's grotesque overstatement of the risk from roaming paedophiles which has led to a generation of children spending huge chunks of their leisure time indoors vegetating rather than exercising. That will take years, possibly decades to correct if it ever can be.

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posted Aug 24, 2008

Hmm.

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