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Heads Should Roll

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Heads Should Roll
Last Thursday veteran AC journalist Tim Jeffery (GBR) posted this on the Daily Telegraph Sports (UK) blog he is maintaining while in VLC for the AC.... Misplaced razzmatazz ends Cup win The difference between crass and class is one letter. They can be polar opposites too. How else do you explain the fact that America?s Cup Management played ?F****** in the Bushes? at the presentation ceremony for the Louis Vuitton Cup to the winning challenger? Pretty decent Oasis track it is too but the Gallagher?s work isn?t for the prudish. Nor it is exactly good taste for a live TV broadcast going around the world. And it certainly warranted a ?parental advisory? for the hundreds of young children watching the prize-giving. Was there a subliminal message? Remember ACM promised to modernise the America?s Cup and drag it into the 21st Century. The Valencia America?s Cup Port is a marvel, but so are many ACM aspects of the New America?s Cup. They also have a three-year legal wrangle with Louis Vuitton, a 25-year supporter of the America?s Cup, but whose sponsorship payments are held in escrow whilst the lawyers chew over an overpaid/over-sold/under-delivered dispute. Read the lyrics and decide... We put this festival on you bastards With a lotta love We worked for one year for you pigs And you wanna break our walls down And you wanna destroy us Well you go to hell Kids running around naked, f****** in the bushes x4 I love it Kids running around naked, f****** in the bushes x4 I love it Room for everybody here Yes, all are welcome Yes indeed, I love them Fun Nice Life Youth Beautiful I?m all for it As for the presentation ceremony to Emirates Team New Zealand, well, it was worthy of an excruciatingly bad Eurovision Song contest. Teams and crowds were kept waiting 90 minutes. The moment of victory had vaporized. Interest dulled. A misplaced desire for razzmatazz saw two skydivers (who were impressive) deliver the Cup. Trouble is, the rather nice Louis Vuitton case in which it fell to earth was placed in a black box on the stage where, guess what? Another red case with the actual Cup in it was lying in wait and it was this was lifted out and placed on the plinth. Magic it was not, certainly not when the host broadcast cameras recorded the reality rather than the illusion. Most miserable of all was discarding the tradition of having the defeated finalist ? Luna Rossa ? there to welcome the winner. They were summarily dismissed for their efforts. Everyone deserved better. Full Story »

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