It is Saturday, therefore it is Football Day!
Since Scotland invented and developed football, spreading it world wide through the means of the English Empire, the game has become the most beloved game in the world, and no wonder!
What can be more enjoyable than eleven men facing eleven men on a grass pitch, if there is any grass upon it, and kicking a ball around for 90 minutes? Sheer enjoyment, sporting success, team spirit development, fun and laughter, as well as a few pretending their hard men and kicking the shins off anyone they face. What can beat this game?
However, this is the 'International Break,' which means all the top teams, and some small ones, are missing their international players. These are now spread across Europe, Central and South America, and Africa, as countries fight for the right to be at the World Cup Finals in the USA next year.
This means that top divisions are not playing and so coverage of league games is left to lower division clubs, and only for of them are playing today in Scotland. So, what to do?
I am trying to watch some insipid English games in League two, that is the fourth division, but inspiring it is not. This is because they are not my teams, they are foreign sides in foreign leagues which mean little. I can identify with individual players or clubs that secure shock results, but for the most part they are all to often games which slog along rather than have meaning. Crowds in England may be quite big, however, real passion is found among Scots clubs and fans.
How to deal with this?
Watch TV? But that is a home for those chasing 'Bread and Circus's.' Nothing intelligent lives there now. Search the internet? But this is a daily trial, searching for interesting news, views and objective journalism. This is not always a success. Shop? Have you got the money? Go somewhere? I refer you to the previous answer? Search for blogs worth reading? Indeed this is worth while, though there appears to be a death of these at the time, Twitter and BlueSky have taken people from long thoughtful bogs, or ones like mine, and created a space for short thinking and quick answers. I note a few really good one, but in days of yore so many more existed. Some people stopped writing, some got bored, some died, and some chose Twitter, and all these things are understandable.
International football is great, emotions run high, joy extends to all around, sometimes, yet in between the games there is nothing. As I write some fans are watching smaller teams in their locale, which is good. Others are being dragged through shops by the wife, still others are with relatives or forced to work on the house. Men suffer badly during the international break, surely there is a charity out there that can do something for them?
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