Not sure rugby is a good example of a sport.

If you look carefully, what you have is a group of same sex players donning tight (lycra based) clothing, chasing eachother around a field and when caught clinging together and rolling around in the mud. If no opportunity for a group hug is forthcoming they stop and have an organised one. Following this, they strip off, jump in a bath together, then go out, get drunk and drink eachothers urine.

For sport read "public homo erotica" ;)

Apparently the olympic medals 'we' won in the last Olympics were dominated by posh events such as rowing, shooting and horsey stuff, with public school educated contestants.They were also dominated by sitting down events, suggesting that we are too lazy to even stand up when competing. :)

I used to be very anti public school, a view encouraged by well meaning liberal leftie teachers. As you suggest, the public schools recognise the value of competition, of hard work, or creating character in a person. In my opinion more public (private) schools would be a good thing, and the state system could learn a lot. Apparently private schools do not need to follow a lot of the regulations in the public sector. And discipline is enforced.

How did we get here from the original post? Mmmm.

Not many cyclists went to public school.