Why are young British sportsmen often so puerile ?
In the last few days, Lewis Hamilton, undoubtedly a very good driver, has shown the petulance one might expect from a 10 year old. His appalling behaviour during the 4 days of the Monaco Grand Prix weekend showed that this spoilt child has no grace or sportsmanship. Whether or not his teammate, Nico Rosberg, deliberately ran off of the circuit in qualifying, Hamilton's subsequent show of sullenness and irritability was childish in the extreme. This man needs to grow up.
Over at Wentworth, another young man did rather better but still demonstrated a lack of maturity. Rory McIlroy had apparently been planning marriage to his girlfriend of a couple of years, Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, nad the couple had even sent out wedding invitations. Suddenly, McIlroy, who is hardly a child at 25, decided that he "was not ready for marriage", this after he and Wozniacki had been together for close to 3 years. How is it that living together for 3 years had not prepared him for marriage ? Clearly and in common with much of today's youth, he has no understanding or desire for commitment or responsibility and prefers to be footloose and fancy free, a state much more suited to a selfish child or teenager than a man in his mid-twenties.
While McIlroy put his issues behind him and won the Wentworth golf tournament, Wozniacki seems to be devastated and was considering pulling out of the French Open Tennis tournament; it appears that she's changed her mind on this score but I don't give much for her chances of success.
The behaviour of Hamilton and McIlroy shows just how low modern youth has sunk. These spoilt kids, like far too many of their British contemporaries, never grow up. Until they do, they will never be true world beaters, just selfish, sulky children.
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