"[S]occer-playing America is massively liberal, loving, caring, socially conscious and nice. While soccer-hating America consists of increasingly isolated gangs of Bush-supporting, bible-bashing, gun-crazed, dungaree wearing, banjo-playing, quasi-fascist chicken-lovers and their twelve fingered, pin-headed, cyclopic, drooling monster children."
That's been my observation, too. And I live in the thick of American soccer-hating land, so I ought to know. He could have been describing the guy who sits in the next cubicle over in my office, although I must admit I haven't seen him play the banjo. Yet.
I love the way Wells sticks it to those on the other side of the Big Water as well. 1953, indeed!
Too Dee
· 1 year ago
Ask Wells why he has worked to promote the Yanks in this sport when as an Englishman he should be trying to keep football pure of the heathens and barbarians that are money grubbers.
In other words his commentary has given the Yanks aid and comfort while undermining the instsitutions that make football a world game.
He also talks about the stinking yank league and the supporters group of the Philadelphia clubs as some sort of sign that the Yanks get it.
The Yanks cannot get it. They do not live in a football culture. They live in a culture of barbarism, best exemplified by the simple but violent game of American football. Unless these Yanks spend time in Britain or Brazil or some place similar they can never understand it.
Wells writing reflects a pro-Yank point of view which either means he has been paid of by the Yank Oligarchs or is simply not a football man himself and does not care about the game.
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That's been my observation, too. And I live in the thick of American soccer-hating land, so I ought to know. He could have been describing the guy who sits in the next cubicle over in my office, although I must admit I haven't seen him play the banjo. Yet.
I love the way Wells sticks it to those on the other side of the Big Water as well. 1953, indeed!
In other words his commentary has given the Yanks aid and comfort while undermining the instsitutions that make football a world game.
He also talks about the stinking yank league and the supporters group of the Philadelphia clubs as some sort of sign that the Yanks get it.
The Yanks cannot get it. They do not live in a football culture. They live in a culture of barbarism, best exemplified by the simple but violent game of American football. Unless these Yanks spend time in Britain or Brazil or some place similar they can never understand it.
Wells writing reflects a pro-Yank point of view which either means he has been paid of by the Yank Oligarchs or is simply not a football man himself and does not care about the game.