I’ve never been a football fan, although I admit to having ‘dated’ one of Yeovil Town’s players some years ago .
Whilst
I share the evident sheer joy of the club’s tremendous and well
deserved success, it is with mixed feelings that their opponents should
have been Brentford, as my first husband’s father
was general manager of the team, back in the 1970s when they enjoyed
something of a heyday.
What
was apparent last weekend however, is that as far as I can tell,
despite the intense disappointment, (or would the word ‘gutted’ better
describe their reaction) both The Bees and their
fans behaved in a manner fitting to the occasion, sportsmanlike.
The
sign of a well bred sportsman, according to Debrett’s Guide to British
Behaviour, is someone who is ‘Magnanimous in Victory, Gracious in
Defeat’.
Victory can sometimes be bitter sweet, but a ‘win is a win’ as they say.
Of
course in entering any type of ‘game’, be it a sporting activity,
promotion at work or politics, we all want to win, otherwise why would
we enter?
Beware
those however for whom winning is the ultimate goal; tennis, racing,
motor sport, cycling are all examples of where many of those we once
admired have fallen by the wayside due to
the greed fuelled desire for the power of winning.
I
know only too well that success is not always guaranteed, and where
there are winners there will always be losers, but that shouldn’t stop
one from trying; attitude is everything is my
constant mantra, and if you fail first time around, in the words of the
song ‘pick yourself up, dust yourself down and start all over again’.
I’ve been doing it all my life and i don’t think it’s done me much harm.
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