HeyJaredOn Sport
Sporadic thoughts on the sports I watch (football, tennis and cricket) and on the football team I follow (Manchester United)
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A tribute to Sobers and Baresi (opens the original)
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Over this past weekend, I’ve been reading Duncan Hamilton’s book, The Man Who Walked Out of the Sun: A Lifetime of Summers with Garry Sobers. The book was published on July 2. Garfield Sobers died fifteen days later. The book wasn’t meant to be a tribute by way of a farewell, but it works as one all the same. In the days since Sobers died, leading up to the state funeral at the Kensington Oval in Barbados, the eulogies have poured in. Almost everyone has been unanimous in their
The imperfect 0-0 (opens the original)
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The Italian coach of the 1950s, Annibale Frossi, once said, in a quote sometimes mistakenly attributed to the journalist and writer Gianni Brera, that the perfect game of football would finish 0-0. This was because Frossi believed it would represent “an expression of the balance between attack and defence.” In New Jersey last Sunday, the World Cup final between Spain and Argentina ended 0-0 after 90 minutes, needing a late extra-time winner from Ferran Torres to settle the tie. If one reads th
The World Cup and its Constitutive Rules (opens the original)
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There is a strange silence that envelops a football match every time a referee stops play and decides to review an incident on the pitch-side monitor. The game is sent into a state of suspension, the crowd is momentarily befuddled, players are looking to get a peep in behind the referee, and the managers and their staff are alternating between looking at their own monitors and pacing anxiously on the touchline.In Kansas City today, with Argentina and Switzerland locked at 1-1, with just over 70
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