Football Is For Fascists
The English national team in Berlin's Olympic stadium in 1938.
Why is everybody going on about the World Cup? What's the big deal? I'm sick of it. I haven't got laid in two months. So what? Football, like chicks, is all luck anyway and people who go on about how the game binds the world together make me sick. Yeah, football binds the world together alright. It binds everyone together like sticks in a bundle. Binds everyone together in a fist. That old fascist logo. That's what you are - a bunch of little people being squashed together in a fist, like the stems of so many crushed flowers. Fascists. The Americans got this one thing right - they never got into football, at least up till now, and they at least managed to protect themselves from this one calcification of the brain. You think the land of Indiana Jones would fall for anything as stupid as football? Indiana Jones hates Nazis. He knows nothing about death camps and the brutalisation of the masses, he just hates them by instinct. And he's right. By the same instinct the Americans always hated football.
Football keeps people stupid.
Football is dark practice and makes everyone act and talk in the same way.
Comments
Mmmmmmaybe. But, the Americans have baseball, basketball, and a "football" of their own -- all of which have their own oppressive flavors.
Anyway, write me an e-mail about this summer. What about a side trip to Gdansk? I've never been there.
V; June 21, 2006 6:36 AM
Not being a fan of the world cup and football at all, actually, the opposite of that, I'm sure if you wouldn't be so harsh I'd agree with you. But in this case I might mention Godwin's Law.
Michael; June 21, 2006 10:53 AM
Fuck off
Anonymous; June 21, 2006 3:14 PM
Our first hooligan!
Christy; June 21, 2006 4:15 PM
Woah there. Settle down Spartacus. It's just a game man. Next time how about you let yourself wake up first, drink some coffee (or Doppelkorn), maybe listen to the birds sing. Then reconsider your reasons for equating with fascism any system that encourages uniformity (or doesn't get you laid), at least it might lend it more nuance. Can't Germany just have fun this time? Without somebody dropping the F-word. Please.
For what it's worth, it's not just the fascists who've had strong national teams. The commies, the social democrats and the even a few military juntas here and there all have created some world-beaters.
What ever happened to Hasselhoffnung anyway? ;-)
bp; June 21, 2006 4:28 PM
that is certainly a compelling photo, though, I'll give you that...
bp; June 21, 2006 4:51 PM
Ben: is the stuff you're taking legal? And don't take it too often, please, or the temporary disease might become chronical.
norbert; June 22, 2006 10:09 AM
You are so provoking. I am amused. :)
till; June 22, 2006 7:50 PM