The definition of a sport in my opinion is something that a computer/robot couldn’t do better than a human being.This, I have found ‘works’ for all contact sports and high agility pastimes such as cricket, football, rugby, tennis, badminton, boxing, swimming and judo to name but a few. It also laughs in the face of:
Shooting (the act of understanding trajectory and staying still for a minute – easy)
Darts (the act of judging weight against distance whilst fat)
Fishing (the act of doing fuck all – benefit claimants favourite)
Parachuting (the act of falling to Earth like a stone)
Sailing (the act of programming a set of coordinates into a computer)
A professional football player is far more than a sportsman. He (referring to the Premiership & International mainstream) is a part of a sport, playing for a team, representing a country, city, town, dream etc causing mass joy or melancholia as the final whistle blows.
If a Liverpool player, earning far more than the average ‘worker’ in Liverpool scored goal after goal, week after week no-one in Liverpool would begrudge him his earnings as long as he didn’t buy a copy of the Sun.
Sport affects those taking part and those who support teams/participants like no computer/robot generated entertainment could ever do – it’s a different emotion. The computer games fraternity will produce nothing other than serial killers and mass murderers apparently.
What I’m really trying to say is that I can’t stand hearing fishermen referring to what they do as a sport – it’s waiting – sitting or standing like a sad lonely individual, possibly having a few roll-ups and a can of Special Brew or drinking from a flask and waiting – no more.
Pictures of ‘fishermen’ standing like a jungle warrior holding the ten pound stickleback that he’d done nothing more than ‘wait’ for six hours for make me laugh – Martin Salter and fishing seem somewhat appropriate to me.
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