We might not be very good, but at least we turned up

It will be 40 years ago to the day this weekend that England captain John Pullin rose wearily to his feet in a smoked-filled room in the old Hibernian Hotel in Dublin, dodged a couple of incoming breadrolls, and uttered possibly the most memorable 13 words in rugby history: “Well we might not be any good but at least we turned up.”

  – We might not be very good, but at least we turned up at Telegraph

Just a reminder sport is not always about winning at all costs.

Interesting that Rugby union was nominally amateur; I know amateur sport doesn’t really work (or so they say) but there is something noble about this amateur, Corinthian spirit.

 

I think it was Bob Dylan who said:

“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient and then repent at leisure.”

- somehow this reminds me of one or two from the world of pro-cycling.

 



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