Sir Chris Hoy

So the new years honours list was released today and it was like reading the nominees for the sports personality of the year competition. Lewis Hamilton MBE, A guy who no longer even lives in this Country and Chris Hoy who won three gold medals riding a bike in a circle. Fair enough, I appreciate the hard work these people have put in to be the best in their field however does it really qualify them to receive such huge honours?

I was just listening to talksport and they were asking the very same question, however they kept saying that people in football deserve it more, your Kenny Dalgish's and what nots, for my money, I don't see why a footballer is any more deserving than a cyclist, in fact aren't the natural rewards you get from these sports enough? How incredible is it to do a sport you love for a living? How amazing is it to win three gold medals and the most prestigious sporting competition in the world, the adulation you receive from the media and the public when you win. And as for footballers, the top footballers earn £60,000+ every week while tons or regular hard working people wish they could be in their shoes. They have a natural talent that in the grand scheme of life is pretty unimportant and they get rewarded handsomely for it, so why do they deserve MBE's, OBE'S, CBE's, Knighthoods and whatever else they can hand out? They don't!

How about giving knighthoods to the brave people who go and fight the wars we start, who risk their lives in the name of this Country in some pretty unpopular conflicts. How about giving knighthoods to teachers who dedicate their lives to trying to give the youth of this nation a good education before they grow up to want to be Jordan. Why don't nurses deserve to become dame's they work really hard looking after the sick people who live in this Country and they get paid a pittance especially in comparison with these footballers that play two games a in three days and complain of fatigue, they can fuck right off as far as I'm concerned.

Lets just give these honours to people who really deserve them rather than feeding celebrity ego's even more?