tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post7298236224567598121..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: A Dance of Light and ShadowUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-11031617369555708882014-06-28T22:09:09.759-07:002014-06-28T22:09:09.759-07:00Sometimes it's the unregarded corners where th...Sometimes it's the unregarded corners where the ball takes the most unexpected bounces.<br /><br />Than again, sometimes the business takes the air out of the ball.<br /><br />Mario Novais captured the balletic aspect. On the Western Front, with the troops, footy was a stress relief.<br /><br />Millionaire footballers were once, in the majority of cases, kids kicking a ball about sans supervision on a street somewhere. <br /><br />There's something universal, a levelling-force, in a game so simple it can be and has been played world round with no equipment more sophisticated than an inflated scrap of rubber, leather or what you will. <br /><br />The travesty of corporate sponsorship and the endless pimpology of FIFA won't change the fact that in Central and South America, this game speaks the language of the common people.<br /><br />There are some happy Colombians on this planet tonight, and it's possible one or two of them aren't even drug lords.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-82773151931377974052014-06-28T13:06:10.191-07:002014-06-28T13:06:10.191-07:00I'd want to echo Curtis here. Everything an in...I'd want to echo Curtis here. Everything an industry now: culture; leisure; beauty. <br /><br />Play happens in the unregarded corners (here's hoping).Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-10630080538319567992014-06-28T05:44:05.321-07:002014-06-28T05:44:05.321-07:00"organized not for play but rather to impede ..."organized not for play but rather to impede it"<br /><br />That's really the whole nine yards, as they say. <br /><br />CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.com