06/17/2010: "fair play?"

im sat here, its late a night, silent in hoover towers and im thoroughly demoralised.

ive given my time to coach and build a small cricket team, capable of competing in a local schools competition, all for free.
the kids that are in the team and the numerous others who came along every monday to practice have given their effort and practiced.
today was the day of the competition, and to watch them playing against another school side, that conveniently had a player missing and was able to field its best player twice, was gut wrenching.
i asked why their best player was permitted to play twice as long in the match, i received no answer or recognition.

i was always brought up, with the understanding that cheats may prosper once in a while, but on the whole they will lose, what goes around comes around etc etc etc.

this is just the latest in a long line of examples, whereby those that have cheated are getting away with it:
- the seat car that was clearly mis sold, lies were told about its performance, reliability, warranty, yet the company concerned are still selling the bill on, even though its in dispute and no official body will do anything about it, despite agreeing totally that a disputed account cannot be sold on.
- the local cowboy, who plows a neighbour full of ale, then charges them top whack, cash in hand, to do jobs for them... a form of "networking" - making money off the back of friends, which i find abhorant.
- the "celebs" that have got drugged up or smashed out of their brains, seen by newspapers, yet months later they are playing at grounds such as old trafford alongsiode international footbal players and on tv every 5 minutes
- piers morgan, a classic example, here is a bloke who was forced to resign from his job as a newspaper editor, for publishing fake pictures of our brave lads fighting in iraq, and ran the story that our troops were torturing the iragi prisoners - gets a job on britains got talent (like hed know) now has a top job on usa tv... wheres the justice in that?
- like the website forum whose self proclaimed motto is "use our links to keep the website going" when in fact the website forum is a business that makes money for the owner of it and nothing else

endless examples of companies, people, businesses, etc. treating people like fools, especially those who play by the rules, and not only getting away with it, but making vast sums of money off the back of it.

is their no justice left in todays britain?