"Lacking any real vision for its own future, football has allowed television to lead it into the modern age while it itself continues to gaze backwards, still seeing itself as some kind of repository for attitudes towards work, class and community. Never can there have been a British phenomenon so trashy, so plastic and yet so full of a past that was none of those things." Just read this on an absolutely fantastic blog about Edwardian football which you can find here: http://thedabbler.co.uk/author/james-hamilton/ Really great reading, and strewn with images you can copy, paste, and claim are of Dave.
"stripped of its meaning as soon as it’s over, repeating and repeating, and utterly incapable of projecting meaning and emotion even six weeks into the future." I can still watch Iwan vs Birmingham, Manchester United and Liverpool Euro comebacks. Or Simeons goal vs pompey and get a big lift. So its good reading but i disargee with alot of what hes written in the neville article
You know dave you give off the impression that I have just made some big mistake. Whats worse is that I dont know what it is.
unless your picking on my mild case of dyslexia? which I hope you find funny but one time i turned up to a toga party as a goat. Its an illness and shouldnt be laughed at.
No, its a made up problem to compensate the lazy and uneducated. I have a mild form of both of those things.
The culturati do take themselves sooooo seriously. What are blogs but ever increasing amounts of human debris cluttering up cyberspace.
I'm olny jkonig carany dvae. My seplilng inst gerat but asolng as you can udnestrand my pniot i thnik will be arlgiht.
If you really want an expert opinion on anything right from the soul then go on Iplayer and reprise the John Arlott interview with Mike Brearley from 1984 that was on BBC4 last night. No ****in sound bytes from a twat like Jamie Redknapp, Merson or Kamara or a ****in poser wanna be a lad Helen Chamberlain but a man who thought before he spoke but when he did, was worth listening to.
