You mean this one? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17538766 If you want a local coach, that's going some...
Reincarnation also rests on an idea of a hierarchy of animals as well though, doesn't it? With humans at the top (of course) and bacteria or something at the bottom. So maybe disabled people were really, really morally good dogs or horses or chimps in a past life but no one ever says this. Point is that it could be a promotion - just being human could be a sign of excellent past behaviour. As a cat. I'm a fully able human but that doesn't mean to say I was morally superior to a disabled person in a past life. Maybe in my past life I was really handsome and excellent at football but because I was a bit of an arsehole I got demoted to someone who looks like me and who will never pull of a Cruyff turn intentionally. I also heard that when Hoddle broke the news to Gazza that he wasn't going to the WC he put a bit of smooth Kenny G on in the background as an excellent way to take the sting out of the situation. Apparently Gazza went bezerk anyway, despite this astute manipulation of human emotion. Great player but a bit of a prat as a man. I'd be up for him being England manager. I couldn't give a monkeys about England nowadays - at least it would be fun.
If we can have the likes of Terry as skipper, the FA can hardly be seen as guardians of the moral highground. Hod for England!!
Terry or Gerrard as captain's acceptable. The Dalai Lama as manager would be morally indefensible though, obviously.
Good reading, lennypops. It's too bad anything you say that could be viewed, however dimly, as insulting to anyone results in a permanent black mark by your name if you're in the media spotlight. I admit I haven't read the original quote, but from what I gather it doesn't cast aspersions on challenged people or anyone else, it was just some idle speculation.
Not exactly, RW&EB. I think he was pretty specific about it. "My beliefs have evolved in the last eight or nine years, that the spirit has to come back again, that is nothing new, that has been around for thousands of years. You have to come back to learn and face some of the things you have done, good and bad. There are too many injustices around." "You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. I have nothing to hide about that. It is not only people with disabilities. What you sow, you have to reap." "You have to look at things that happened in your life and ask why. It comes around." - Glenn Hoddle As I said, it's utter bullshit as far as I'm concerned, but I think that he's entitled to believe in that bullshit if he wants to.
Oh yeah - of course Hoddle didn't realise at the time that according to his theory disabled people might have been enjoying a promotion (maybe they were a really well behaved fish in a previous life and got fast-tracked). But that's cos he's not the smartest. Just wish someone with a bit of authority on the subject had cut in at the time and saved him from himself.
