To want to punch Seb Coe?

[dolallylass]

He's amazing and he's done a wonderful job but he really looks like my XH and I find myself getting all stabby when he's on the box. Grrr!

He has but he's so bloody smug!

So is my XH!

He is the Bob Geldof of the sporting world

No! He's a smug cock!

Is it unreasonable to ask him to grow his hair like Bobs too? Just so I can watch him.

I used to fancy him when he was an athlete, then he joined the Tory party, so I chucked him!

He just looks like a smug middle aged man now.

I can't stand him.

Glad the Olympics is done and dusted so hopefully he'll stop popping up all over the place!

He's as bland as an economy sanitary pad. Yanbu

Perhaps if he smiled ocassionally he would be less irritating.

I think he looks like Anne Robinson when he has his glasses on

he gave a very boring speech.

Detractors of Coe will find http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9444123/Lord-Coe-laughs-off-questions-over-slow-business-in-London.html his insensitivity here gratifying.

Argh!
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I can't stand the man. He looks sinister to me.

YANBU

Dolallylass - is your XH my XH? Mine is slightly similar looking but younger, and also a smug twat.

yanbu. for all the reasons above.

Horrible Tory smug bloke!

he did an amazing jobs with the Olympics and is passionate about sport.

I found his speeches at both the opening and closing ceremonies to be spot on.

I agree too, his speeches were spot on and he did a fab job steering what has been an amazing Olympic Games. Couldn't give a toss what political party he supports nor did I notice political speeches from him during the Games which certainly would have jarred. Am glad there was an intelligent and passionate sportsperson at the helm as from the Torch Relay to the Closing Ceremony the Games struck the right note.

Roll on the Paralympics!

He is smug, and smugness is unforgivable.

I found the way he brushed off the concerns about ticketing very patronising. He didn't give a crap about the general spectators.

I disagree. I think they dealt with the empty seat problem pretty swiftly.

As tedious and predictable as it is, there are going to be people who won't ever give him credit because he's Tory.

I think he has done a brilliant job. And I agree that the ticket problem was dealt with very quickly.

What people choose to ignore, is that the organising committee don't have autonomy on a whole range of issues. The IOC have a massive list of stipulations and restrictions which a host city have no choice but to accommodate. National federations and the IOC having vast numbers of tickets is one of those, and actually the London allocation was reduced by 15% from the Bejing levels.

The Games have been a huge success, and he should rightly take a share of the credit.

Now that the party's over we may get some questions about the bill for Seb Coe's vanity project.

It would have been much cheaper to buy him a hollowed-out volcano and a white cat.

Smugness is unforgivable?? Wow.

Anyway, one person's smugness might be another person's confidence. You want a world event of the complex enormity that is an Olympic Games assigned to someone who presents calm assurance to the country and to the world. An ex-Olympian might fit the bill. Feedback from newspapers and commentator's abroad said this was an assured Olympic Games that & a confident nation; one that could also irreverently laugh at itself (skydiving ERII anyone?)

There was a hint there would be a stink about the ticketing allocation to sponsors which would only be revealed post-Games.