Bloody Football
Jun. 26th, 2006 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI should have been doing the housework but my country needed me, so I sat down and watched the England game instead.
The more I see of this World Cup the more I'm confirmed in my opinion that football is the dullest game on the planet.
I watched the wome's tennis final at Eastbourne on Saturday. Justine Henin-Hardenne and Alexandra Myskina contrived between them to do something amazingly athletic, skilful and exciting every thirty seconds or so. By contrast the whole 90 minutes of the England-Ecuador game threw up four of five such moments.
Why is football the world's game of choice? Why does David Beckham make more money than Justine Hardin-Hardenne? Why do people invest so much emotion in a sport that delivers so few thrills?
The more I see of this World Cup the more I'm confirmed in my opinion that football is the dullest game on the planet.
I watched the wome's tennis final at Eastbourne on Saturday. Justine Henin-Hardenne and Alexandra Myskina contrived between them to do something amazingly athletic, skilful and exciting every thirty seconds or so. By contrast the whole 90 minutes of the England-Ecuador game threw up four of five such moments.
Why is football the world's game of choice? Why does David Beckham make more money than Justine Hardin-Hardenne? Why do people invest so much emotion in a sport that delivers so few thrills?
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Date: 2006-06-26 04:17 pm (UTC)Maybe there's too much at stake here for the players to be anything but cautious most of the time.