tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607526938969354988.post1987821290626924703..comments2023-08-10T12:23:08.071+03:00Comments on Reflections & Deflections: Acting Key Skill in FootballOtienoHongohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07116301778217920666noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607526938969354988.post-84518696523591014712010-06-22T16:16:52.230+03:002010-06-22T16:16:52.230+03:00well, it seems most things are going south these d...well, it seems most things are going south these days, including something as sacrosanct as football...i agree with Charles that indeed things have changed. Back in the day, players had to be physically compelled to land on their bottoms or backs or stomachs for that matter. Nowadays, looking at our current crop of "poster footballers", who frankly speaking should decide on any of these three careers - acting (as Charles so rightly pointed out), modeling and/or investment banking - one gets the feeling that football needs to be brought back to its rightful place, and that is in the game! The only thing missing in the World Cup for me, is, football! <br /><br />When i see players rushing to the referee to award them a penalty because a projectile a.k.a as Jabulani happens to land on someone's hand, or winking conspiratorially to each other after conniving to have some other player sent off, or crumbling into heaps of despair and pain upon making contact with blades of grass, or earning mega bucks per week to do exactly this, i get sick!<br /><br />I agree there have been moments of brilliance every now and then, but we are quite a long way off from reclaiming football from the lowly levels to which it has sunk. One thing that i hope this World Cup will do, and i particularly do not care whichever team employs whichever number of tricks and turns to claim it, is bring back the beauty of the game to the game and for the players to enjoy it, for only then is the true magnificence of the game manifested.victor ombonyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12105186624591175512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7607526938969354988.post-35071793934750721082010-06-21T11:39:26.133+03:002010-06-21T11:39:26.133+03:00Couldn't agree more with what you've said....Couldn't agree more with what you've said. The number of players who go down as if fatally wounded, only to be up and running about 2 minutes later is simply embarrassing.JoshThttp://poker.ladbrokes.com/en/poker-rulesnoreply@blogger.com