What a weak kneed society we have become when a manager giving someone a verbal bollocking in front of the TV cameras drew so much criticism from the Match of the Day football pundits.
It seems everyone has been tainted with a sort of Political Correctness where no one should receive criticism, only 'watered down praise'. "It hurts the lads", to be told they played like a bunch of dummies said the pundits and will respond negatively at the next match.
What a load of twaddle !
They then drew the comparison of how you handle young players in a youth team where encouragement is needed to protect the young psyche but, and even there, one should never reward a poor performance.
The premier league players are grown men, astronomically well rewarded for what they do and if so sensitive would never survive a building site environment where you get verbally roughed up quite often and have to wait a long time if you need to hear praise from the boss.
I hear this pandering to the soft feminine side of our character (an oxymoron if ever there was one), the culture of, its "prizes for everyone, and no one is either a winner or a looser" a philosophy which has taken hold in our state schools.
The privately educated child is not led to believe that you win by loosing, you win by winning and you better get used to the idea ! That is why they succeed. Their internal antenna is tuned to find ways to win, simply taking part is not enough.
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