The World Cup

[poliphilo]

The BBC was talking last night about our "failure" to win the rights to stage the World Cup and the need for an inquest to "determine what went wrong"- very much as if we were entitled to it and had had it snatched from under our noses. I think it's fairly obvious that what went wrong is that our bribes weren't big enough. 

Anyway, we'll be staging the next Olympics. How many international sporting events do we think we deserve? 

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[mamadar.livejournal.com]

The only thing worse than European football is American football. When I was a child, football players were average guys who actually had *other jobs* in the off season, though they probably didn't have to work very hard as real estate salesmen or whatever. Now most of them are brutal thugs.

I keep trying to remind myself that sports, like theatre, has religious origins--the ancient Greeks celebrated funerals with athletics competitions. I still hate most professional sports, though, and support amateurs who just want to exercise and have some fun.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Someone once said that "professional sport" is a contradiction in terms.

The more money that is pumped into a game, the nastier it gets.