Athens 2004 Vs Wembley 2006 !!!

British press was responsible for a number of vile articles on the 2004 Olympic games in Athens. Most of the articles were targeting the slow progress of the construction in most of the Olympic venues. (By googling the words Athens 2004 and Delays ... you are bombarderd with tonnes of articles).

I was feeling rather humiliated by those articles...instead of feeling elated and proud, I was disappointed. Greece has been waiting for its turn to host the games for more than a century, and now, everything was ruined! According to world media, the venues wouldn't be ready on time for the games, terrorism threat was an imminent one, and most of the people who trully wanted to attend the Games were put off by those news.
Unfortunately, for the vile media that is, the venues were ready on time and the opening ceremony was a success...
I was finally elated and really proud being Greek... The way our history unraveled during the ceremony reminded me that!


Now it's a British football stadium which is the target of several similar articles.
In the Athens Games the opening ceremony was on time and in venue. The FA cup final now has been moved from its venue (new Wembley Stadium) to Cardiff's Millennium stadium, and England's friendly games have been moved to other venues. What goes around, comes around !