So in this brief time before football starts I was bored and wanted to kill time, so I thought we might discuss irony. I am an old man and the incorrect use of the term irony bothers me. So I have come up with a quick quiz to test you all. I have tried to keep them football related. 1. Billy is a Spurs fan. He wears silver spurs to show his loyalty to his team. One day he tripped over his spurs and was run over by a number 3 bus. His favorite player wears the number 3 shirt and the number 3 bus stops at White Hart Lane. That is ironic! 2. Jimmy is a Manchester United supporter. He is always taunting Arsenal fans that they haven't won a trophy for years. Ironically Manchester United did not win a trophy last year. 3. Fred was a lifelong Liverpool fan, but was petrified of being struck by a meteor from outer-space. He wouldn't even walk in a straight line, to try to avoid being hit. Ironically one day he was actually struck and killed by a meteor, while walking to a game. He was eighty years old and this was to be the last game he walked to. The supporters club had arranged for a taxi to take him to games in the future. 4. It is ironic that many of the teams that play the best football are accused of diving the most. 5. George was a football hooligan. It was ironic that the home made petrol bomb, he took to the game, to throw at the rival fans, exploded and killed him, when he lit it. So my question is; which of these are really ironic. Of course, after setting myself up and posting on here, I could be wrong; that really would be ironic, wouldn't it? Or would it? Answers to follow...
I was only trying to have some fun - As I say I was bored - This is the winner - congrats sir! Irony is something that runs contrary to intuition or what you would normally think to be the truth. It can also be metaphoric, like a blind man "seeing" the truth. 1. This is a coincidence. 2. This is just expected. Eventually Man Utd were going to go trophyless. 3. This is coincidence and tragedy. No one should think his evasive actions would help him avoid the meteor. 4. This is opinion that they play the "best" football, and no one should be surprised that tippy-tappy football, as some people call it, is less-physical. Diving and the best football are not really intuitively incongruous. 5. This is Karma. As for my being wrong, well that might be ironic if you accept me as knowledgeable on the subject, but I know most of you don't! What is really ironic is that RVP of all people, our captain, lifelong fan, a player who has said he loves Arsenal, the man we expected to lead us to a trophy this year, has decided to leave the club! It will also be wonderfully ironic in the most complete sense (with the Karma effect in it), if he goes and we win a trophy, because most people consider him irreplaceable, and that we cannot win without him.
HIZMO, the day you manage to scare anyone is the day you convince anyone you're not HIZMO hiding behind a new name. It ain't gonna happen sonny, so jog on. Thanks
