The Premiership is the most watched football league in the world in 2008, yet a complete mystery to many.“
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.” Bill Shankly knew it would be like this…….
In fact, to some, football is more of a religion than religion ever was. The similarities run deep: with weekly celebrations, after meeting drinks, passionate discussion, tithing, uncomfy seats, embarrassment when the person sitting behind you is a shouter, controversy over team selection, discussions about the quality of the building, and even a reason to live, for some perhaps.
Should we be surprised by the commitment and passion of players and fans? Players not, since 100 grand a week would make the most lethargic, 2 left footed person passionate, but fans perhaps yes…since what need is this actually meeting in them, what gives people the desire to support perpetually losing teams like Derby that can never stay up?
Victoria Beckham was asking to be mocked when she said “I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing.” Imagine if she had said…..”I don't know much about Christianity, but I know who Jesus is which is surely the main thing.” Don't hear any mocking now.
3 comments:
I really like that last statement. To me it says it all, that we don't need to know a lot of stuff but we do need to know Jesus and when we do we can know it all through Him. There is a great reassurance in knowing Jesus is knowing enough.
I was thinking about the poor guy who scored an own goal in the 94th minute. To have come on to the pitch, playing for a big team and with a big audience must have made him feel fairly successful, then minutes later to have to deal with the complete drop into despair and misery and feeling of failure is awful to imagine. Most of us are fortunate emough to have our great highs and lows happening a bit more privately. I just wonder where you go with all that emotion when you don't feel you can hand it over to a bigger God.
Riise must have been completely decimated...how do you walk out on a pitch again??
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