Gary Lineker
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And a mother, one of the mothers of the opposing team player, came up and went, that's your son up there, isn't it?
I went, yeah, yeah.
She went, I thought it would be better than that.
I said, you should see his mother play.
But I guarantee Tiger Woods would have been equally as good.
That is, there's some interesting stuff being done in Norway at the moment with youngsters.
It's incredible.
I don't know whether you've noticed, but they're producing like a plethora of talented sports people.
Well, you would see in the Winter Olympics, it's like... Winter Olympics right at the top.
Norway, they've got people like Haaland.
For the Winter Olympics, it would help.
But, you know, for golf, for example, you know, Victor Hoyland.
But what they've done there, they've basically let kids play sport if they want to and do what they want.
There's no league tables.
There's no winning and losing.
You're just playing for fun.
And they've found that so many more young people are sticking with sport because they're having fun and enjoying it.
Whereas before, and in most other countries, there's maybe...
The parents are pushing them or the coaches are pushing them and so many kids get put off sport and hate it.
Anyway, I think you picked out a few sports people that have made it to the very top and it's very public that we know what their parents are and they did have pushy parents.