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Fiancé’s weird understanding re professional sports men / women and qualifications

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EL8888 · 28/07/2021 10:08

Randomly chatting with fiancé last night, he reckons if you have done sport to a professional level e.g. for gymnastics, football etc. You don’t really need to bother to do GCSE’s or A levels. You’re too busy with your sport and that demonstrates your dedication. Later on if you want to do a degree then they let you in, even if you don’t have the correct requirements or sufficient qualifications. Not sure where he had got this from and l don’t think it’s correct which l told him. For some reason this has really aggravated him and claims lm being judgemental. It’s more l don’t think it’s factually correct and practically doesn’t make sense e.g. why would someone be accepted on a psychology degree but don’t even have GCSE biology. Or do English literature but they didn’t do it A level or even GCSE. It would make things difficult for the person doing the course, plus hard for tutors and peers if that person didn’t have a basic groundings in things. What makes this even funnier is l even used to work in admissions for a university but lm still wrong apparently Confused

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FittedSheet · 28/07/2021 14:49

And yes, it’s absolutely crushing to have been focused on, say, a football career since childhood and for it all to end abruptly at a very young age, whether through injury or simply other people being better.

Insert1x20p · 29/07/2021 03:54

Maybe an Arsenal player?! Sol Campbell, aka ‘The Professor’. Also Graham Le Saux was considered a bit above himself as he read the Guardian.

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