h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

For those who don't know, the term 'soccer' derives from Association Football, the original term for modern-day footie.

I used to take offence at Americans who insisted that 'theirs' was the real football (played mainly, like the superior game of Rugby, with hands, and secondly booted feet), but once I'd discovered the original link to British history, I gave my lion a slap on the back, got the boy to make some more tea, and got the elephant to take me back to the memsahib...

Then I woke up and realised I didn't give a rat's ass about sport. Although I agree it has its place for those weak individuals who crave the company of others to give themselves a frame of reference in which to exist, and who sexually are secretly aroused by the thinly-veiled homo-eroticism of 22 men in shorts, sweating and being all sporty and such...ahem...not me you understand, just a POV, if a little loaded with psychobabble and odd imagery.

The Q works in mysterious ways.

I agree about the pointlessness of sport. That is kind of the point to it.
I actually find following football less non-homoerotic and more to do with something to talk with people at work about on a Monday morning as we nurse our respective hangovers/comedowns etc.
It's just one step up from the weather in conversational terms as you can't take the mick out of someone's raincloud as well as you can their team's pisspoor performance at the weekend.

I clicked on your link expecting to be bored out of my tiny mind. How wrong could I be. I enjoyed the witty way it was written and read it all without skipping or skimping through it.

BTW Nearly all team sports go back to our tribal instincts. Better than war, it lets outs frustrations of everyday life. These days though it seems to add to the frustrations more than not.

I have never been a follower of team sports. As a bit of a loner, I prefer sports which are more, one on one. vegiman

Thanks for the kind words.
I must say I prefer a frame or two of 'Bedroom Billiards' with a lady who really knows how to handle a cue.
Still, tribalism has its place if only as a way of helping us to forget that we are top of the food chain and Kings of all we survey.

Enjoyed the article very much. It reminds me a lot of the article I wrote about hockey, as it uses the same style, except yours is better written. Mine has a very clumsy feel to it.