SACK RACE TO ENSURE A FABULOUS 2012

Okay. So when I said, See you Monday, I meant Tuesday. Get over it.

I’ve written more than enough about the Olympics – but I can’t resist a few final points as we look towards 2012.

1. Our team did us proud – except for field and track, the one that really matters, and they were pretty average. And what did I witness when it was all but over – one of the guys in charge of the athletics team, Mr Cliché, I think his name was, telling us that ‘the team made progress and now we must learn from the negatives and take heart from the positives’. He blatantly lied that our runners had made lots of finals (oh, no they didn’t) and then tried to kid us (he’s obviously already kidded himself) that everything will be fine in 2012.

Somebody sack the blusterer now!

2. Did you, like me, watch the closing ceremony in horror, waiting for the disaster that must surely accompany the arrival of the shambling ghoul? Yes, I also watched through my fingers as Boris Johnson didn’t quite live up to his reputation. But he will. Come the day – if he hasn’t already resigned following one too many gaffe – Boris will embarrass us in front of the world.

Somebody sack the buffoon now!

3. It’s right that we don’t try to emulate China when our turn arrives in 2012. We haven’t the cash to spare or the unquestioning, disciplined talent to do it. We have other talents. We have Jimmy Page, we have Leona Lewis, we have talent in spades in the performing arts. All we have to guard against is that the BBC isn’t allowed to take it over and present its Claudia Winkleman version of young and edgy and funky and quirky. The London concert that followed the closing ceremony belonged to BBC producers and directors; not the kids, not the people. If we go that route, let’s do it properly.

Somebody sack the bastards now!