The Round Ball Game

[scottycelt]

[vinteuil]

... and that, o EdgelyRob, is the sum of your response to the contention that footleball is just a silly, silly game??

[teamsaint]

to use the words of Randy Newman...it may be a silly game but its OUR silly game.

(and it would be less silly if FIFA employed staff with functioning brains.)

[scottycelt]

to use the words of Randy Newman...it may be a silly game but its OUR silly game.

(and it would be less silly if FIFA employed staff with functioning brains.)

What's wrong with being silly, anyway?

That great football fan, 'Ed Balls, is always being silly, and it certainly hasn't done him any harm ...

[JohnSkelton]

.... well, it's just a silly, silly game, this footleball - ain't it?

But any non-essential for the purposes of survival human activity can be described as 'just silly' if looked at from a hostile external perspective. Even French baroque music , or pretending that wine is of any interest other than for the effects of the alcohol, etc .

So, no, it isn't "just a silly game." It's a "silly game" if you choose to look at it that way. IMHO .

(I don't really see that the head-to-head rule is unjust. Manchester City did the double over Manchester United, which surely made them winning the title feel more just).

[EdgeleyRob]

... and that, o EdgelyRob, is the sum of your response to the contention that footleball is just a silly, silly game??

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.
For a shilling the Bruddersford United AFC offered you Conflict and Art. (JB Priestley).

The game is run by some silly people though.

[vinteuil]

But any non-essential for the purposes of survival human activity can be described as 'just silly' if looked at from a hostile external perspective. Even French baroque music , or pretending that wine is of any interest other than for the effects of the alcohol, etc .
So, no, it isn't "just a silly game." It's a "silly game" if you choose to look at it that way. IMHO .

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.
For a shilling the Bruddersford United AFC offered you Conflict and Art. (JB Priestley).

The game is run by some silly people though.

... now there's some quality responses!

Mind you, it's a jolly silly game...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i am sorry but football is neither jolly nor silly; as Mr Shankly said "Some people think that football is a matter of life and death. l am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you that it is much much more important than that." ...i think he was deliberately understating the case so as not to frighten the ladies ....

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Returning to the head-to-head vs. goal difference debate, it's interesting to note that the team with the joint worst goal difference came top of Group A. Head-to-head makes Oxford United better than Barcelona. (Oxford beat Swindon, who beat Wigan, who beat Newcastle, who beat Chelsea, who beat Barcelona.)

[EdgeleyRob]

And if the excitement of the Euros isn't enough for you, the fixtures for the new league season are published tomorrow.