News that the government are to get schoolkids to exercise for at least four hours a week by 2010. A tracksuited Tony Blair says it's daft for any school to oppose competitive sport:
'Most people understand life is going to be competitive, and anyway competitive sport is fun'.

I couldn't agree more. How on earth are our young men going to compete in a competitive world if they don't get competition on our (dwindling) school playing fields. There is nothing more character buliding than being in the middle of a scrum of heavy teenage boys, locking necks, being pushed from behind and in front, having your foot stood on by metallic studs, and getting your head smeared in the unwashed body odour of someone you once thought of as a friend.

Or running the 400 metres at full pelt when the most you'd ever sprinted before was fifty yards for the bus.

Or walking through a freezing river in the school cross country, walking because you can't run anymore because you're not super fit and probably now dying of exhaustion and exposure to the elements.

'Come on, lads! Come on! Think long-term!'