Are England the P4P best sporting nation on earth?

[Elite]

5 minutes ago, Josef Svejk said:

 

 

Incidentally, regarding those three sports, England has won 3 world cups in 41 competitions. That's hardly over-achievement given the origins of the sports.

You make a fair point and statistics don't lie.

 

I'd still rank England quite high overall due to sheer number of sports we participate in but points about funding and resources are very valid as well.

[ZonkoVille77]

Impossible to masturbate to this thread.

[sir roger]

One of my favourite countries , New Zealand , but outside rugby and sailing/canoeing they aren't very good at many major sports. Pretty ordinary at football, boxing, motor sports , one track medal in 40 years at the Olympics and no international cricket wins.

[Josef Svejk]

13 minutes ago, sir roger said:

One of my favourite countries , New Zealand , but outside rugby and sailing/canoeing they aren't very good at many major sports. Pretty ordinary at football, boxing, motor sports , one track medal in 40 years at the Olympics and no international cricket wins.

In fairness, they're magnificent at rugby!

[cloggypop]

The Dutch are that bad at Rugby that the barman in my local plays for them and he's South African. 

[Jairzinho]

Just now, cloggypop said:

The Dutch are that bad at Rugby that the barman in my local plays for them and he's South African. 

25th in the world apparently!

[Liverpool lad]

Mo Farah

[Josef Svejk]

4 minutes ago, Liverpool lad said:

Mo Farah

Bless you...

[Pureblood]

16 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

The Dutch are that bad at Rugby that the barman in my local plays for them and he's South African. 

Bunch of cloggers.

[General Dryness]

33 minutes ago, sir roger said:

One of my favourite countries , New Zealand , but outside rugby and sailing/canoeing they aren't very good at many major sports. Pretty ordinary at football, boxing, motor sports , one track medal in 40 years at the Olympics and no international cricket wins.

Completely ignoring rowing, field events, and the fact that they've just lost an incredibly close cricket world cup final. An amazing sporting record for a population so tiny.

 

Your post comes across as baiting and I shouldn't rise to it, but this forum is becoming so full of bullshit and waffle these days it's very close to getting fucked off.

[The Midnight Rambler]

Was anybody on here alive in 66? Don’t think it should count otherwise.

[Alan Sex]

How did England do at the World Series of American Football at the last Olympics?

[Pidge]

We're definitely in the top 200

[3 Stacks]

It's the US. By far. Even with a pretty big population. 

[3 Stacks]

49 minutes ago, Liverpool lad said:

Mo Farah

He's Somalian. 

[SasaS]

2 hours ago, Elite said:

Obviously there's specific sports they don't do well in but overall, for a nation that's as small as England they compete at the highest level in most sports. The focus on too many sports could possible be an hindrance in some respects.

 

You may be confusing competing in sports that get coverage in British media with "most sports". Handball and volleyball are quite popular in the rest of the world, played much more widely than cricket or even rugby, no coverage whatsoever in the UK. Someone already mentioned basketball. Ice hokey is the main sport in a number of countries.

Nobody will ever come near German Democratic Republic anyway.

 

 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, ZonkoVille77 said:

Impossible to masturbate to this thread.

Maybe that's true for you but I'm spending too long here.

[Guest]

34 minutes ago, Alan Sex said:

How did England do at the World Series of American Football at the last Olympics?

They lost in the semi final. Like normal.

[Pureblood]

So we're all agreed it's definitely England, yeah?  That seems to be the general consensus.  Great thread.

[cloggypop]

Whenever a Dutch person proudly tells me that they are the tallest nation on Earth I always ask them why they are so wank at basketball. 

[Baltar]

England/GB are definitely up there. New Zealand are pretty amazing at rugby and cricket given their population is about half of London.

[VladimirIlyich]

Its nice England have won the Cricket World Cup,I really enjoyed the final. Its also a nice sporting achiecement that the won the Rugby one a while back but both these sports,at their elite level,only feature about 10-12 nations and England were one of the first nations in both of those sports so maybe they've actually under achieved in these sports specifically? They have in football,no doubt. Going back to the cricket as well,the England captain is Irish and the bowler of England's super over was born in Bridgetown,Barbados. Wasn't England's top scoring batsman also born in New Zealand?

[Josef Svejk]

12 hours ago, Josef Svejk said:

Incidentally, regarding those three sports, England has won 3 world cups in 41 competitions. That's hardly over-achievement given the origins of the sports.

Should have added: Australia has won 7 while New Zealand has also won 3. Just by comparison with relevant (colonial) countries with much smaller populations...

[Paulie Dangerously]

We're also very good at the sit down sports like cycling and rowing. 

[Jairzinho]

18 minutes ago, Paulie Dangerously said:

We're also very good at the sit down sports like cycling and rowing. 

There about three times as many people living in Nigeria so really they should be pretty embarrassed about their cycling and rowing.