Wednesday, 20 June 2018

How To See ‘The Game’

















Thus, in an addict’s mien replete with all good 
stuff, let’s be loquaciously effete about th’ way 
SBS handles FIFA’s 2018 world cup - ok so far 
anyway; its anything but repetitious agendas o’ 
trite cliches about boring footballs’ latter days - 
we get t’ see some interesting parts of Russia, 
meet local odds & sods, plus fanatical fervour- 
lush fans mingling with cognoscenti-bods who 

seem t’ve sprung out o’ bewilderedness into th’ 
mod-age - then we get t’ see games ‘avid’ with 
trimmings of engaging contests, sparked by th’ 
supporter-commentary and frenzied behaviour; 
crikey, we might be back in th’ Colosseum you 
suggest - and yet - it isn’t all that too far away - 

but I digress; the sanity’s in how they manage 
t’ be rational & coherent - while engaging in an 
oratory extravaganza based 14,000 kms away; 
well, regardless, it entertains, even at 2am - or 
are we indulged in fantasies we’d been wooed 
into by illusions o’ how to see th’ game played 

© 20 June 2018, I. D. Carswell

SBS is Australia's multicultural and multilingual broadcaster. 
Includes news, sport, entertainment, documentary, film, food, 
radio and television

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