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Old 01-03-2013, 01:42 AM   #1655 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by watson View Post
I agree with you, but I can't help it.

For me sport is just as much about 'art' as it is about stat's and winning.

Or to put it another way, I'd rather watch Brazil play a 0-0 draw using 'beautiful football', than watch England grind out' a 4-nil win by merely banging the long-ball up-field from the half-way line.

And incidently, if Victor Trumper or Archie Jackson batted like Chanderpaul we'd all be saying, "Victor and Archie who???" because they would have disappeared out of peoples imagination by now.
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