The European Football Tournament is well under way and a few teams are already planning their early return home having been bundled out of the tournament in its preliminary stages. Now the blame game starts. Some players and coaches will begin to apportion blame on their team mates. Some will keep silent although they already have a scapegoat in mind for their failure at the tournament. The most hurt will blame the referee perhaps.
Very few of them will want to accept their part in the failure of their team to progress into the knock-out stages of the tournament. Even fewer will be vocal about their role in their teams' abject performances at the event. Some coaches will lose their jobs while some will quit but they will go down fighting, never accepting that they could have had better results with different tactics or squad selection.
We are not so different from them. We also want the praise when things are peachy and we look for someone to blame when things go awry. We desire nothing better than to always be on the side that wins, and that is why some of us don't really have an opinion on anything. We would rather wait for the winner and then go with that person or team. When was the last time you owned up to something that was your fault? If you made a mistake, accept it, take the consequences, learn from it and move on. Life has so many opportunities and we can waste valuable time and opportunity denying our actions and motivations instead of progressing with God's unction.
Very few of them will want to accept their part in the failure of their team to progress into the knock-out stages of the tournament. Even fewer will be vocal about their role in their teams' abject performances at the event. Some coaches will lose their jobs while some will quit but they will go down fighting, never accepting that they could have had better results with different tactics or squad selection.
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