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In my humblest opinion, Clive Woodward should get a Knighthood for shepherding the team to Rugby World Cup victory; the rest of the England team should receive the senior gong in the OBE/CBE/MBE pantheon. The others are all non-entities.
Henman scores highly in the irony stakes: he has, afterall, made something of a successful career of failure at the highest rungs of the game; Michael Watson - isn't he the boxer who got mullah'd so badly he went into a coma? Dude, if you're gonna let other folk beat you repeatedly round the bonce, then hey, here's the news, you can end up in a coma! And he gets a gong for that? Fuck me, I'm no doctor and I could have told him he ran the risk of ending up the stunning conversationalist that Mohammad Ali has turned out be! FFS!
Tessa Sanderson? Ah yes, that great Olympian talent: she came fifth in a three-horse race? Where's the achievement there? Nicholas Parson? OK, for services to radio on 'Just a Minute' on Radio 4, but, come on, 'Sale of the 'Kin Century'?? Behave yerself! Christ Tarrant could have single-handedly taken the top gong for happily the most nauseating git on both TV and radio, or, to give it its correct acronym Talent Wasted Again Tarrant (TWAT).
If e'er talent was so proven (in most of the above cases) to be ephemeral, or merely a case of 'Famous for Being Famous', it is writ large here in these awards!
When children hold the like of than uber-nonce, Beckham, in reverence and above the likes (whom they can't even name!) of VC winners and the late PC Ian Broadhurst?! (sighs....)
