Is Bradley Wiggins a QPR fan?

[maverick69]

'Selfish, characterless and boring'. Right. It's a good job Premiership footballers buck that trend then. You could be forgiven for being mistaken that they are equipped with self-deprecating wit, articulate, thoughtful, never troop in moodily past fans with their headphones on listening exclusively to Usher and thinking about their next meal at Nandos and getting their agent to phone the club to sort out such major issues as getting their light-bulbs changed or parking fines paid. They aren't in it for the money at all and all for the love of the sport and loyalty their club and it's fans. Rooney, Modric, Van Persie and so on. Lets face it, we only got Hoillet for the money and his dad asking for money for himself. The guy is 65k a week, is 22 and in terms of the sport achieved nothing. people like Macca were the exception and from a different age and that;s why he always was my favurite player.

For the most part athletes like Wiggins have made huge sacrifices, struggle financially and to maintain relationships due to their schedule and, in his case, dealt with hitting the bottle when, despite coming back with three medals including a gold from Athens, he couldn't even pay the bills because of the lack of sponsorship.

Meanwhile there are 20 year olds who can't tap a ball or get in the first team on million pound contracts who live in mansions blowing it away on diamond earrings, hookers and Cristal in Boujis. Wiggins has got a dry wit, makes good copy if you've read any of his self-penned columns, knows his sport, but has interests outside of it, but most importantly, different from almost actually any British Premiership footballer, he actually doesn't strut around giving it the big I am, but he is a world champion.

Great post...... especially the final couple of lines.

[loneranger]

Top post in a nutshell,

on a lighter note he as fit as f@ck comes from kilburn and loves weller can we sign him ,,,,,,,,,,,,,

cracking he likes the pseudo chelshit rapist.

[blue and white]

i cant believe people are giving this guy **** about his personalty. over in oz we have to put up with cadel evens. this is a guy with no personalty and spends all his time cry and bitching about how bad the world has treated him. Good luck to wiggins for the olympics and well done for winnning the tour de france

[TBLOCKRANGER]

'Selfish, characterless and boring'. Right. It's a good job Premiership footballers buck that trend then. You could be forgiven for being mistaken that they are equipped with self-deprecating wit, articulate, thoughtful, never troop in moodily past fans with their headphones on listening exclusively to Usher and thinking about their next meal at Nandos and getting their agent to phone the club to sort out such major issues as getting their light-bulbs changed or parking fines paid. They aren't in it for the money at all and all for the love of the sport and loyalty their club and it's fans. Rooney, Modric, Van Persie and so on. Lets face it, we only got Hoillet for the money and his dad asking for

money for himself. The guy is 65k a week, is 22 and in terms of the sport achieved nothing. people like Macca were the exception and from a different age and that;s why he always was my favurite player.

For the most part athletes like Wiggins have made huge sacrifices, struggle financially and to maintain relationships due to

their schedule and, in his case, dealt with hitting the bottle when, despite coming back with three medals including a gold from Athens, he couldn't even pay the bills because of the lack of sponsorship.

Meanwhile there are 20 year olds who can't tap a ball or get in the first team on million pound contracts who live in mansions blowing it away on diamond earrings, hookers and Cristal in Boujis. Wiggins has got a dry wit, makes good copy if you've read any of his self-penned columns, knows his sport, but has interests outside of it, but most importantly, different
from almost actually any British Premiership footballer, he actually doesn't strut around giving it the big I am, but he is a world champion.

The fact footballers may wonder around in nandos, listen to usher and are moody wasn't my point. The difference between those sports I named and football is not what you say, it's obvious a tour de France champion is dedicated etc and that a few footballers go out on the lash but that isn't particularly remarkable.

The difference is that we as fans in football don't follow the players, we follow the club. No one says I'm not following QPR
because Adel walked out at the cottage or Joey got sent off. The reason the vast majority follow our club and country has nothing to do with the players. What my surprise is, is that 3 weeks ago the only people who really knew of Wiggins were those who read cycling weekly but now he's expected to be hero worshipped by a Nation, even criticsm of him on a
footballing forum is frowned on. We all celebrated our promotion not because we liked Adel and thought he's a brilliant footballer but because we were there in the **** times and this is our club, which for many of us was our local or still is and to our others (foreign fans) their spiritual home.

Whether footballers are loaded and disrespectful doesn't matter, if we as a nation had the world cup the country would be on cloud nine, no moaning like the Olympics where about approval rating with all the hype is about 30% of the nation.
People aren't fools they realise the olympics are made up of an umbrella hotpotch of athletes that are on the whole individuals and suddenly as a nation we are supposed to get behind them as we would with a football team. This team building and hype for mass support is manufactured, in the same way that Henman hill or mount Murray is an
embarrassment, people who have no interest in a sport suddenly for a week think Henman or Murray are our true sporting greats, unbelievable. It's like the people who only go out on news years eve all getting together, even with wiggins the mass euphoria that has seem to have got onto this board whereby he's now a role model compared to footballers is based not on years of supporting your club but the media hype. Wiggins rides for sky and wins the tour a week before the
Olympics, other interests are driving the mass hysteria that somehow as a nation we must take him under our wing.

As to me saying people in certain sports are selfish is not contentious as Schumacher, woods, are all classic examples of what I described. I've read both of lance autobiographies and he says to win the tour you have to be selfish and even he was boring, all he did was get on his bike and go up and down mountains in texas but he clearly was a supreme athlete as is wiggins.

So for me following football whether it's the mass ranks who flood into to see boca/river, inter/juve, QPR/Chelsea, Germany/holland, England/Argentina, el Classico,Watford/Luton is not about individualism it's more. However following F1, olympics, Henman hill or now the tour is imhonmanufactured, its the last night of the proms stuff where we "all have to get behind" but many of us are left with wondering why.

[IsleworthRanger]

Is this the real WATRBS website?

An intelligent interesting debate on here,whatever next?

[TBLOCKRANGER]

Is this the real WATRBS website?

An intelligent interesting debate on here,whatever next?

At 8.00pm today only on WATRBS "should the private lives of individuals be open to public scrutiny"

[LoftusRoadLad]

Don't expect write ups like that on here that early especially with a hang over !! Gotta have a coffee !

[silvercue]

You have a point.
Tennis players, cyclists, golfers and motor racing drivers are all similar in that they are on the whole sports born out of hobbies where those that participate are generally loners in nature resulting in the participants being selfish, characterless and boring but when they achieve success they crave adulation and expect the whole nation to get behind them circa 1966 or Gazza and the boys returning from Italy.

You talk such clichéd sh1t it is embarrassing.

[Johnnykc]

'Selfish, characterless and boring'. Right. It's a good job Premiership footballers buck that trend then. You could be forgiven for being mistaken that they are equipped with self-deprecating wit, articulate, thoughtful, never troop in moodily past fans with their headphones on listening exclusively to Usher and thinking about their next meal at Nandos and getting their agent to phone the club to sort out such major issues as getting their light-bulbs changed or parking fines paid. They aren't in it for the money at all and all for the love of the sport and loyalty their club and it's fans. Rooney, Modric, Van Persie and so on. Lets face it, we only got Hoillet for the money and his dad asking for money for himself. The guy is 65k a week, is 22 and in terms of the sport achieved nothing. people like Macca were the exception and from a different age and that;s why he always was my favurite player.

For the most part athletes like Wiggins have made huge sacrifices, struggle financially and to maintain relationships due to their schedule and, in his case, dealt with hitting the bottle when, despite coming back with three medals including a gold from Athens, he couldn't even pay the bills because of the lack of sponsorship.

Meanwhile there are 20 year olds who can't tap a ball or get in the first team on million pound contracts who live in mansions blowing it away on diamond earrings, hookers and Cristal in Boujis. Wiggins has got a dry wit, makes good copy if you've read any of his self-penned columns, knows his sport, but has interests outside of it, but most importantly, different from almost actually any British Premiership footballer, he actually doesn't strut around giving it the big I am, but he is a world champion.

Great post......albeit slightly depressing about the state of football.

[TBLOCKRANGER]

You talk such clichéd sh1t it is embarrassing.

Normal quality of debate resumed

[IsleworthRanger]

Normal quality of debate resumed

We nearly made two pages as well

[silvercue]

No offence intended, of course :arr:

[HammersmithR]

Well the lad done good! Fair play to him! Good to see that some of his family are Rangers. Half expected it being brought up in Kilburn and going to school in Maida Vale.

[HammersmithR]

According to this, his family sit in the SAR stand

http://qprreport.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=34375&page=1

[SpankwiR]

According to this, his family sit in the SAR stand

http://qprreport.proboards.com/index...d=34375&page=1

His family do. He doesn't! for me that means I place him in the 'traitor clueless helmet' (excuse the pun) category