I'll start some chat then, if there aren't any reports from Saturday to
read and discuss.
I went to the ballet on Friday night. First time I've been, and it was
BRILLIANT!
I won't go in to the detail here of the performance, my point is that
those blokes (and women) nail every physical move they attempt every time.
They are fit, strong, athletic, and must train really really hard,
repeating the same moves over and over again, until they can make those
moves faultlessly.
So why don't footballers do that?
I know there are variables on a football pitch that there aren't there on
a theatre stage (wind, grass, opposition players), but lots of things in
football are very predictable. Like penalities. And corners. And a five
yard pass to another player in your team.
If a ballet dancer can jump up in the air and twiddle his feet backwards
and forwards eight times before landing (I've no idea what that move's
called), and do this 20 times in the performance without mistake, why
can't a footballer kick a ball from the corner spot to somewhere roughly
above the penalty spot even once during a game? Or direct the ball from a
penalty spot in to roughly a square metre of the goal he chooses?
It does seem that the discipline ballet dancers must have, to be that fit
and that good, together with their balance and control, and their ability
to remember moves, if applied to any footballer, would make that
footballer a much better player.
Send them to the ballet, that's what I say.
DRB (in cultural mood)
We've been there and done that in, I think, the fifties under Major Frank
Buckley. Looking back I don't remember it making any diference but I was of
an age then when they were all perfect to me no matter what they did. Some
would say that hasn't changed!!
You can't have the poor darlings going over and over the same things until
they're perfect at it. They'd get bored.
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