Tennis or Football?

With Wimbledon won and The World Cup reaching the finals, now is a time to reflect and think about the past few weeks of sport that we have endured.

Now, although I am a huge Tennis fan, much like Nick from The Great Gatsby (book not film version) I shall try to reserve all judgments, however, in the end he turns out to judge every one he ever met over that summer with the only exception being Gatsby. So I shall try and learn from his mistakes.

The past few weeks I tried to watch as much tennis and football as I could manage to get an even field when talking about it. The main thing I found to be different was this: anger. Tennis players when they lose shake hands with the opponent go back stage and talk about how they need to work on themselves. Footballers turn to social media and send tweets about how they feel bad but make no explanation as to why they feel they lost.

Second thing: courteousness. Tennis players are very gracious when playing, applauding the oppositions incredible serve and understanding that they may just be better than them. Footballers become far more aggressive. Turning to the referee and shouting at him whilst grabbing other players and shouting in their face when they are wrong.

Thirdly: drive. This is difficult as tennis players, they play for themselves so they have a lot of drive but they are doing it to better themselves. Whereas footballers have drive to earn as a team, some football teams - not England this year - work together to gain as much as possible and celebrate together when they win. Some football teams have strong drives and they play to win and better their team.

Overall, in some cases footballers and incredible and in other cases tennis players have the advantage (like the play on words?). One thing is for certain this year saw the rise of some new talent, with many new footballers making their debut in the world cup and tennis players knocking out grand slam champions.