Down with football.

Contemporary Review | October 1, 2004| | Copyright

FOOTBALL has had a bad press through most of the ages, only recently being elevated to 'the beautiful game', the continuation of aesthetics by other means. The old view was well put by Sir Thomas Elyot, who in his The Book named the Governor (1531) described football as a game 

 
     wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereof 
     proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with 
     them that be wounded, whereof it is to be put into perpetual 
     silence.

Shakespeare would have gone along with that. His only ...

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