I had an argument with the missus the other night about whether football was art

[Monty91]

I suggested that when football fans eulogise about a goal or a pass, this is fundamentally no different to a posh bloke analysing a painting. They're just using their own respective vernaculars to do so.

I'm right, aren't I.

[Free SL]

[modd]

you create a painting with your hands or feet or anything else. You create a goal from your feet. Their always need thought and skill to be achived.

So your right monty. :bow:

[Pat Vegas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I'm pretty sure that blokes with enormous brains and red trousers argue for hours about a definition of 'art'.

[Frimmers]

Hope this helps.

[Monty91]

that one is considered (by many) to be low-brow, whilst another is high, despite their being no difference.

[Pat Vegas]

a typical stupid football supporting man.

I had to explain to my missus why the Benfica fans were crying after the game.

'why are they crying?' They just lost the final.
'and they are crying for that? meh' 'have you cried over a football match?'

I said perhaps one occasion in 2006. she wasn't impressed.

[Curly]

[Frimmers]

So that is an unbelievably feeble point.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

If opera is art, then pop music is art, and anyone who disagrees with me can get to f**k.

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

Whereas a spectacular flourish in football is intended largely to help win a game. Any emotional response we may have is purely a by-product.

[Monty91]

[Curly]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Monty91]

[Pat Vegas]

actor is a moving portrayal of art?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Now we have to play our f**king games miles away.

[7evens]

with a sprinkling of the more level headed individuals.

[Curly]

[Pat Vegas]

Which is where they put the cat under the bed to hide it from the landlord.

[Frimmers]

Have you heard any Finnish folk metal Sir C? I'm listening to quite a lot of it at the moment, tremendous fun it is.

[Monty91]

of a football fan not to acknowledge that they can appreciate a moment of artistic merit on the pitch.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

canon. I wonder whether you might do me the kindness of linking me, as we say, up?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Monty91]

[Curly]

"the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance"

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Frimmers]

WODKA! (http://youtu.be/e7kJRGPgvRQ)

They always sound like they're having an awfully good time of it.

[Luis Anaconda]

I say scare - maybe inspire is a better word

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I'm all over the accordian there. Excellent stuff.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[The JBear]

[Ashberto]

[Peter]

And as you were talking to a woman, you do realise that you were wrong before you even opened your mouth and will continue to be so long after you close it?

[Chief Arrowhead]

[Bergkamp's Brain]