Articles like that piss me off a bit

"Footballers are thick". Well, compared to "most", probably yes that's true. However, "most" can't play football very well.

Put differently, it's fashionable to sneer at someone with the level of skill required to play football at a professional level for being "thick". But imagine a bunch of Cambridge professors trying to play football.

Stephen Hawking up front, for a start...with knives on his wheels a-la-Ben Hur...

Posted By: Peculiar Swan on January 23rd 2007 at 17:30:30


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