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    Foot Ball
    Foot Ball
    Foot Ball
    Ebook61 pages45 minutes

    Foot Ball

    By R. Picken

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    The main theme is that people in North America have been led to believe that a version of rugby is football.Some people may try to dismiss this as unimportant but it relates directly to honesty.The international sporting achievements of American athletes are given their well deserved recognition.
    The question of religion is briefly considered at one point.Good people exist in all religions but differences can create barriers.Thats just pitiful.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateSep 6, 2007
    ISBN9781469118727
    Foot Ball
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    R. Picken

    After graduating in mathematics at the Queens University of Belfast I took an M.Sc. in Statistics from University College London in 1969. Following some employment in Northern Ireland circumstances favoured resuming academic life in Canada and I eventually came to the University of Toronto in 1984.Unfortunately I soon began to feel unwell and after extensive tests a brain tumour was detected.Surgery would be very risky but the tumour would have been fatal anyway so there was no choice. The operation was a success but it resulted in extensive paralysis on the left side. Fortunately my wife is employed by a major Canadian bank so we have still been able to live well in arguably the best part of Toronto. I have recently acquired a power wheelchair which enhances my mobility and employment options.

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      Foot Ball - R. Picken

      INTRODUCTION

      This work begins with a review of the game of football which rose to such staggering worldwide popularity that it simply became the natural thing to do.The only game which at times approaches football in excitement and worldwide popularity is tennis.Other games are also considered.Since some people have made disgraceful attempts to undermine football by actually stealing the name,some games are harshly criticised and deservedly so.

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      FOOTBALL

      The game of football is played with the feet and a ball. That should be simple enough but most people in North America and Australia have been conned into believing that some types of football are played with the hands and a ball need not be round. What a load of balls. Real, round balls.Trying to suggest that a ball need not be round is as idiotic as saying that a cube need not be square.That is utter nonsense.Stealing an established and deservedly respected name to con people into accepting garbage is nothing new. This has also been tried with rock and roll and more recently, the World Cup. Football is the only game whose name has actually been stolen.The pattern throughout history has always been that after something worthwhile has come about,liars, parasites and copycats try to cloud the issue and confuse people with dreadful garbage which is all they can come up with.Football is just the most outrageous example of this disgraceful behaviour.In the words of an English folk song

      Thieves,thieves,tramps and thieves.

      A word about puddings. A useless, clumsy lump whose attempts to play football inevitably result in howls of laughter is called a pudding. Football really shows puddings up, which is the most likely reason why they hate it so much.It is hard not to think that beings who try to undermine and belittle football are only brainless puddings who can just about walk upright and use their hands.Puddings suffer from a strange problem.The poor things can’t play football,so what do they do?They dream up something they actually can handle and call it football.They hate football and would just love to eliminate it and replace it with crap that they can actually cope with but they have to try to trick people by calling this crap football.They didn’t get away with it in England when the comical nonsense of rugby was simply laughed at but fools never learn and a long time afterwards new generations of liars were at it again in North America and Australia.This time they actually did get away with it but history strongly suggests that this shameless and laughable deception will be exposed to the ridicule it so richly deserves,the same ridicule that rugby received and has been receiving ever since.The current explosion of interest in football in North America and Australia suggests that liars are about to entertain the public yet again.They really are gluttons for punishment.They are about to find out that it doesn’t matter whether they go first or last,they will be ridiculed beyond belief anyway.

      The current massive popularity of football in North America is directly due to great players like Pele,Beckenbauer,Best and Marsh spending the latter part of their playing days in the U.S.A.They,together with the far seeing entrepreneurs who invested in football,have given North America a sound basis for the development of football and the World Cup performances by the U.S.A.,which have been promising overall,have at last given North America a taste of the real thing and hopefully illustrated the fact that disappointment is sometimes necessary if victory is to have any meaning.

      It is nice to see the U.S.A. and Canada joining the party.Matches between them have shown the potential for an entertaining rivalry reminiscent of that which has always existed between England and Scotland.However,people in North America should not get carried away.This is just the beginning and there is still

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