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Originally posted by Board Game Geek View PostSo, let me get this straight.
A group of overpaid contractors wearing shirts, talk about some stuff to another group of overpaid contractors also wearing shirts, as they all stare at a powerpoint presentation.
And this is important how exactly ?Cats are evil.Comment
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Originally posted by swamp View PostThis is a very important business to most of us.
BGG - you, sasguru and the rest of you, have one foot in the graveComment
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Originally posted by swamp View PostThis is a very important business to most of us.
To answer BGG it's about tribalism and precious little else.
I always find it hugely comical when people talk about the team they support as "we" when in 99.9% of cases they have no measure of ownership or belonging. The "clubs" stopped being actual clubs decades ago, most of the players are from different areas, countries or even continents and the huge majority of the fans have never even been in their "home" stadium. In many cases the fans haven't even set foot in the town/city "their" club is based.
Football is about hugely lucrative business in the top divisions, nothing to do with sport.Comment
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Originally posted by TykeMerc View PostFootball is about hugely lucrative business in the top divisions, nothing to do with sport.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by TykeMerc View PostI doubt it's most.
To answer BGG it's about tribalism and precious little else.
I always find it hugely comical when people talk about the team they support as "we" when in 99.9% of cases they have no measure of ownership or belonging. The "clubs" stopped being actual clubs decades ago, most of the players are from different areas, countries or even continents and the huge majority of the fans have never even been in their "home" stadium. In many cases the fans haven't even set foot in the town/city "their" club is based.
Football is about hugely lucrative business in the top divisions, nothing to do with sport.Comment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostIs that legal?Comment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostThe opera for the masses. And it gives you an excuse to get some brews with a few mates on a Saturday.
I just wonder what it is that makes football, for example, the most followed sport here in the UK, over and above other hobbies and pastimes, eg : Golf,boxing, showjumping, cricket, rugby, tiddlywinks, ping pong, go carting, fishing, computer gaming, reading, etc.
Some of the others have balls in them, they have teams, they have clubs and fanbois.Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Originally posted by Board Game Geek View PostOr opium ?
I just wonder what it is that makes football, for example, the most followed sport here in the UK, over and above other hobbies and pastimes, eg : Golf,boxing, showjumping, cricket, rugby, tiddlywinks, ping pong, go carting, fishing, computer gaming, reading, etc.
Some of the others have balls in them, they have teams, they have clubs and fanbois.
I have been in games with 80,000 people on the terraces completely engadged emotionally for 90 minutes in what is going on in front of you. Highs, lows, you do not get that with tiddlywinks.
A Pele goal, Maradona juggling the bottle with his feet, Van Basten scoring from an impossible angle, Celtic winning the European Cup in 67, Larssons's run from the half way line, nutmeg, goal. I enjoy it.Comment
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