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Originally Posted by Пятхъдесят Шест
Red Sox fans used to have that kind of mentality, but having won two World Series titles in the last five years, has made that feeling go away, now they expect to win. Fans of the Cubs are just miserable people.
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Haha, yeah. That's what i must've been thinking about. Wasn't there supposed to be some kind of Red Sox jinx or something?
England has this strange habit of demanding success and then, when it comes, turning its back on those who achieve it. Lewis Hamilton winning the F1 drivers championship last year encapsulates that attitude. The build up was a frenzy of people wanting him to win (just as it is at the moment with Jenson Button) but once he did people were taking any opportunity they could to bring him down. The best way to stay a national hero in England is to forever come second (Tim Henman) or to reach the top and then self-destruct (Paul Gascoigne). If Mike Tyson had been English there'd be statues of him in every town square, not for what he achieved, but for how he threw it all away.