Hockey-bashing Brits provoke wrath of Grapes

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Hockey-bashing Brits provoke wrath of Grapes
U.K. paper says game overrated
Canadian icon decries `audacity'


Don Cherry is not amused.

A British newspaper has rattled the hockey attack dog's cage by putting his beloved game on its list of the top 10 most overrated things in sport.

"Is it a coincidence that the country which produced the inexplicably popular Celine Dion should also have come up with a sport that is almost unwatchable?" writes Alisdair Reid in a recent edition of London's Sunday Times.

Last night, Cherry, a.k.a Grapes, was ready to drop the gloves.

"Any people that have a sport like cricket, where they stop for tea halfway through the game wouldn't understand a good man's game like hockey," Cherry told the Star.



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`Anybody that plays sports in short pants, what can you expect?'

Don Cherry, hockey analyst

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"Of all countries in the world to criticize any sport with the way they act when their hooligans go to Europe, and they have the audacity to criticize anybody?"

Hockey — ice hockey, to be precise — ranks 10th on the paper's list, which is topped by British boxer Prince Naseem Hamed ("the motormouth in leopardskin") and also includes the Super Bowl ("over-hyped, over-long and, thankfully, over there") and Scotland's famous St. Andrew's golf course ("get away, it's not even the best course in Fife").

But Canada's sport inspires a particularly condescending bit of invective.

"If you actually see the puck," Reid muses, "you might see the point, but it zips across the ice invisible to the naked eye, the whirling antics of men wrapped in bedspreads the only clue to its whereabouts. Every now and then, the bedspreads stop to have a fight, and are all sent off."

Cherry, who co-hosts the "Coach's Corner" segment of CBC's Hockey Night In Canada, didn't hesitate to hit back: "Anybody that plays sports in short pants, what can you expect?"

Men with pucks aren't the only Canadians the Times trashes. Number seven on Reid's list is the 100-metre dash.

"Ever since Ben Johnson was stripped of his 9.79 sec world record and a gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics for testing positive for steroids," Reid writes, "the public have been left scratching their heads, wondering whether what they are watching is for real."



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Any sport the Brits are not good at or cant cheat in or moan about is not worth a mention in Britain.

But hey what can I say the Brits are the current rugby World champions sponsored by a company that has a great meaning "O2" Which in New Zealand recently after their tour last month translates to zero tries in 2 games.

And I am glad to say what an A$$ kicking in each game!!!!!!!!!!!!

They only like to go on about a sport when they're winning.
 
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