It does, but wealthy kids also have the opportunity to do basically anything they want with a high level of education/training. Sports are often seen as a way out of poverty for young people who don't really have other prospects (or don't think they do), and while I don't exactly agree with that idea I do think it is widely held.
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It does, but wealthy kids also have the opportunity to do basically anything they want with a high level of education/training. Sports are often seen as a way out of poverty for young people who don't really have other prospects (or don't think they do), and while I don't exactly agree with that idea I do think it is widely held.
Married Posh Spice though. That has to count a lot on the Poshness scale. Rocks up to Royal Weddings and has tea parties with Elton on top of it.
The low number of privately educated horse riders is quite surprising.Yes, I suppose you're right but still it doesn't seem to happen that often with football. Probably because of the types of sports that are focused on at these schools. Plenty of posh rugby union and cricket players out there of course, and looking at this breakdown of medallists from the Olympics, it is the sports that require expensive facilities and equipment where the more well off do better.
Overall 35% of British medallists were privately educated at the last Olympics compared to just 7% of the population attending them. Football is still seen as a working class sport.
Also it's generally true. Poverty follows most people down the generations. It's not an iron law, but certainly the rule rather than the exception. There's a ton of research to back this up.
Nail on head. Rich does not necessarily mean posh and in the case of new money almost certainly never does.
Posh is a whole different thing
The footballer with the all-time poshest name has surely got to be 70s/80s Plymouth Argyle and Bristol City defender Forbes Phillipson-Masters
The footballer with the all-time poshest name has surely got to be 70s/80s Plymouth Argyle and Bristol City defender Forbes Phillipson-Masters
Just sounds like a knock-off power tool manufacturer to me.
Pique comes from a very wealthy background. His father is a successful businessman and his mother a doctor. I believe his grandfather was also president of Barcelona at one time. He himself is involved in many business adventures as well. And married himself a Colombian goddess. He's pretty much the definition of an aristócrata in Catalonia and Spain.
Double barrelled names are no longer the preserve of the upper class in the UK, in fact the opposite is becoming the case
Cameron Borthwick-Jackson sounds like he ought to be a distinguished physicist
shhh, we don't want to give the board the idea of signing Rees-Mogg because he's cheaper than FDJ!
Wasn't World Cup winner Leonardo from extreme wealth? Or one of the mid 90s Brazil lot at least.
Its hard to replace the drive that comes from having nothing, though. All the fancy facilities in the world can't replace that in a sport as competitive as football.
None of those private school dominated sports are what you'd call especially competitive. How big is the talent pool for horse dancing?
Its hard to replace the drive that comes from having nothing, though. All the fancy facilities in the world can't replace that in a sport as competitive as football.
None of those private school dominated sports are what you'd call especially competitive. How big is the talent pool for horse dancing?
Didn't Pato come from a wealthy family?
Wayne Rooney was very posh from what I remember
Probably skewed by the fact that for traditional Olympic sports many of them would have received scholarships.Yes, I suppose you're right but still it doesn't seem to happen that often with football. Probably because of the types of sports that are focused on at these schools. Plenty of posh rugby union and cricket players out there of course, and looking at this breakdown of medallists from the Olympics, it is the sports that require expensive facilities and equipment where the more well off do better.
Overall 35% of British medallists were privately educated at the last Olympics compared to just 7% of the population attending them. Football is still seen as a working class sport.
On the scholarship topic, Victor Moses was an orphaned asylum seeker from Nigeria. He went to one of the poshest and most expensive private schools in the UK.
Many people have a more posh "phone voice" that they use when on the phone to strangers and as that was an official prearranged recording, the voice might have bene posher than how he speaks day to day.
sounds posh with that accent..
but i grew up with a couple lads from local housing estates with accents not far from that tbh.
Frank Lampard doesnt have a posh accent but he grew up posh and privileged..
A Tory boy as well
A Tory boy as well
Mido.
His Dad played football before he became a business exec. He went to a private sports college.
I ran into him once in a Casino, safe to say he wasn't strapped for cash...
His Dad played football before he became a business exec. He went to a private sports college.
I ran into him once in a Casino, safe to say he wasn't strapped for cash...
Hudson Odoi went to Whitgift as well. Lots of professional sportsmen have come from there..........
But not all of them have bedded Kelly Brook and survived being hit by a bus.
Dewesbury-Hall sounds like a toff residence
Obvious examples are Rooney, Caraghar, Keane etc
On the other hand I reckon many wealthy or posh kids often have a lot of family pressure to exactly not do anything they want.
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Serious question: was there any reason to consider Le Saux "posh"?
What did his parents do?
He was considered gay because he...didn't read the Daily Sport and was capable of stringing two words together. Is the "posh" thing of the same variety?
What did his parents do?
He was considered gay because he...didn't read the Daily Sport and was capable of stringing two words together. Is the "posh" thing of the same variety?
Gianluca Vialli lived in a castle growing up:
Random, bump, I found out the other day that Tyrone Mings went to a school like this on a scholarship. Millfield in Somerset.
Another very sporty school, they were in the news because they'd sent a number of former pupils to the Olympics and won a few medals. Was looking through their alumni/fees etc. out of curiosity and there he was alongside current F1 driver Lando Norris.
Mings isn't exactly posh though!
And his girlfriend went to a different schoolGianluca Vialli lived in a castle growing up:
I live near that school. A bunch of the boarding school kids get picked up by their parents by helicopter at the start of the summer holidays.
I suppose it's better than them clogging up the narrow country roads in their massive Range Rovers.