Post by tommycairns on Jul 21, 2021 4:02:57 GMT
Politics shouldn't have anything to do with football. We go to the footy on a Saturday to get away from all that shite.
As our Jack put it,
"To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. For a shilling the Bruddersford United AFC offered you Conflict and Art; it turned you into a critic happy in your judgement of fine points, ready in a second to estimate the worth of a well-judged pass, a run down the touchline, a lightening shot, a clearance by your back or goalkeeper; it turned you into a partisan, holding your breath when the ball came sailing into your own goalmouth, ecstatic when your forwards raced away towards the opposite goal, elated, down cast, bitter, triumphant by turns at the fortunes of your side, watching a ball shaped Iliads and Odysseys for you; and, what is more, it turned you into a member of a new community, all brothers together for an hour and a half, for not only had you escaped from the clanking machinery of this lesser life, from work, wages, rent, doles, sick pay, insurance cards, nagging wives, ailing children, bad bosses, idle workmen, but you had escaped with most of your mates and your neighbours, with half the town, and there you were, cheering together, thumping one another on the shoulders, swopping judgements like lords of the earth, having pushed your way through aturnstile into another and altogether more splendid kind of life, hurtling with Conflict and yet passionate and beautiful in its Art. Moreover it offered you more than a shilling’s worth of material for talk during the rest of the week. A man who had missed the last home match of ‘t’United’ had to enter social life on tiptoe in Bruddersford.
J. B. Priestley, The Good Companions, 1929
Gareth Southgate reeks of common purpose training, and we all know he's the perfect FA yes man. He's a weak man and didn't have the bravery to put Grealish on when it mattered. I also think putting a 19 year old lad as 5th penalty taker in a major international tournament was a very strange decision. But that's the beauty of the footy innit? We've all got our own opinions.
I came across this video on t'internet t'other day, and was quite shocked to be honest. We all know that there's a big focus on inclusivity and that strong steps towards non-discrimination are being taken in British employment currently, but surely it couldn't go this far. Could it?
As our Jack put it,
"To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. For a shilling the Bruddersford United AFC offered you Conflict and Art; it turned you into a critic happy in your judgement of fine points, ready in a second to estimate the worth of a well-judged pass, a run down the touchline, a lightening shot, a clearance by your back or goalkeeper; it turned you into a partisan, holding your breath when the ball came sailing into your own goalmouth, ecstatic when your forwards raced away towards the opposite goal, elated, down cast, bitter, triumphant by turns at the fortunes of your side, watching a ball shaped Iliads and Odysseys for you; and, what is more, it turned you into a member of a new community, all brothers together for an hour and a half, for not only had you escaped from the clanking machinery of this lesser life, from work, wages, rent, doles, sick pay, insurance cards, nagging wives, ailing children, bad bosses, idle workmen, but you had escaped with most of your mates and your neighbours, with half the town, and there you were, cheering together, thumping one another on the shoulders, swopping judgements like lords of the earth, having pushed your way through aturnstile into another and altogether more splendid kind of life, hurtling with Conflict and yet passionate and beautiful in its Art. Moreover it offered you more than a shilling’s worth of material for talk during the rest of the week. A man who had missed the last home match of ‘t’United’ had to enter social life on tiptoe in Bruddersford.
J. B. Priestley, The Good Companions, 1929
Gareth Southgate reeks of common purpose training, and we all know he's the perfect FA yes man. He's a weak man and didn't have the bravery to put Grealish on when it mattered. I also think putting a 19 year old lad as 5th penalty taker in a major international tournament was a very strange decision. But that's the beauty of the footy innit? We've all got our own opinions.
I came across this video on t'internet t'other day, and was quite shocked to be honest. We all know that there's a big focus on inclusivity and that strong steps towards non-discrimination are being taken in British employment currently, but surely it couldn't go this far. Could it?