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by CJL
Excellent.
My other half HATES football, but studies philosophy.
Now I have some ammunition to use against him.
Nietzsche - "My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal"
Bill Shankly - "The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life."
Bob Marley - "Football is a part of I. When I play, the world wakes up around me"
Jean-Paul Sartre - "In football, everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team"
And if that doesn't work, resort to Monty Python...
Commentator: There's Archimedes, and I think he's had an idea!
Archimedes: Heureka!
Commentator: Archimedes out to Socrates, Socrates back to Archimedes, Archimedes out to Herakleitos, he beats Hegel, Herakleitos, a little flick, here he comes on the far post, Socrates is there! Socrates heads it in! Socrates has scored! The Greeks are going mad! The Greeks are going mad, Socrates scores, what a beautiful cross from Archimedes!
The Germans are disputing it. Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics; Kant, via the categorical imperative, is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination; and Marx is claiming it was offside. But Confucius has answered them with the final whistle! It's all over!
Germany, having trounced England's famous midfield trio of Bentham, Locke and Hobbes in the semi-final, have been beaten by the odd goal, and let's see it again. There it is, Socrates, Socrates heads in and Leibniz doesn't have a chance. And just look at those delighted Greeks. There they are, "Chopper" Sophocles, Empedokles of Acragus, what a game he had. And Epikuros is there, and Socrates, the captain, who scored what was probably the most important goal of his career.
Posted: 13:05 Aug 12 2003 
We'll beat Rangers this weekend though mark my words 
