Meanwhile, bring on the soccer World Cup in Germany in June a proper tournament that builds to a proper climax.
The course opened in 2009 and has been very well received by the players, but just a couple of days into its first proper tournament, it has been slapped in the face by mother nature and is struggling to get up off the canvas.
After decades of relying on polls and computer systems to determine who would win or play for the title, the sport at last set up a proper knockout tournament for the 2014 season.
Stop patronising them by making them play in a sad preliminary round on bad pitches in empty stadiums and insisting it is part of the proper tournament, when some Test sides hadn't even arrived in the country.
I'm sure dehydration will be in people's minds in Brazil but if anybody does start feeling a bit off, there's probably enough medical people on hand to help! "When they told me that this year's tournament is in Brazil, whilst the proper tournament was going on, I was sold.
The air may have been heavy with humid heat over Buenos Aires but Argentina's summer football tournament has not quite managed to keep fans' minds off the imminent "proper" tournament – the Clausura 2009 which kicks-off at the start of next month.
Tremendous excitement suffused Alexandra Palace in north London on Monday night when Sky's cameras picked out the elfin features of Prince Harry among the crowd at the PDC World Darts Championship (the proper tournament; not the British Darts Organisation version for Men Who Try Hard But Aren't Very Good At Darts, soon to begin on the BBC).
They know that I'm playing in Grand Slam finals, playing tour finals, winning proper tournaments that mean things.
It just wouldn't be a proper Olympic volleyball tournament if the Japanese women weren't there.
@65, "Either scrap the world cup and have a proper Olympic football tournament with the worlds best players, or throw football out of the future Olympic games (along with BMX which is WWE on wheels )" FIFA wouldn't do that.
