The boat race is 'elitist'...

[max_tranmere]

Tomorrow is the Oxford-Cambridge boat race and I recall that last year a guy interrupted the race because he thought it was too elitist. This tool jumped into the Thames and the boats had to be stopped and restarted. The moron was later jailed for 6 months but what interested me was his claim that the boat race was elitist. Sport has always been split along class lines, whether that is reasonable or not is irrelevant it's just how it is. Do people think it would be reasonable and right to show up at a football tournament in east London and complain that it was too working class? I mean, why doesn't someone do that? I hope tomorrow's race goes off without a hitch.

[lloyd42]

You could argue that football today ,and the Premiership in particular, is 'elitist'.

[Arginald Valleywater]

It's a fix. Oxford and Cambridge every year..

[frankthring]

You are right, Max....but then you are Right anyway (for that matter so I
am I much of the time, except when I`m bloody-minded).

[max_tranmere]

Quite an interesting boat race yesterday. No one jumped into the Thames to hold it up, maybe the prospect of 6 months in the nick made them think again.