Is he really 'British'?

deptfordmarmoset

DIESELDOG wrote:

ellieb wrote:

added to which.. I don't remember him representing the IOM at the olympics

Don't think they had a "Throw A Cat" event

Love n hugs

DD

Thereby hangs a tail...

MrSpeedy

garrynolan wrote:

I'm talking about Cav. Coming from NI it's amazing how some sportspeople are considered British when they're winning but Irish (or Scottish etc) when they're on a bad streak.

I'm not sure this is true.
There was an article on the BBC website at the start of the Tour de France in reply to a Daily Mail writer who basically said all British sports people where cr@p. Hayne lost, Murray didn't win Wimbledon, Cavendish hadn't won any stages, England football team can't win anything etc..
So he was a British loser then, right up there with the England football team!

The BBC guy responded saying actually Cavendish was different because he was a winner & made it clear Cavendish was from the Isle of Man. He called him British too, but that really is o.k because people from the Isle of Man are.

So he was British when losing and Manx/British when winning.

But the day a commentator calls him something like the British Bullet when he wins and Manx Muppet when he loses I'll be on your side

Yossie

ellieb wrote:

added to which.. I don't remember him representing the IOM at the olympics

But he did at the Island Games in 2003 when he beat that bloke from Jersey and at the Commonwealths in 2010 when he beat Scotland's (their words, not mine) Dopey Millar.

I'm not sure the I of M can enter the Olympics as an independant nation, but please don't quote me on that.

EDIT: Arrrggghhh - glaring mistake - sorry, sorry, sorry. He was beaten by Dopey Millar, didn't beat. Sorry.

nevman

Italian.Lives in Italy,has most of his victories in Italy and I cannot understand him when hes talking.Hes Italian.