Sport has become a matter of taste
Having met a lady who believes that Cliff Richard's emetic Christmas hit is as poignant as Pavarotti's Ave Maria, I am reminded, as daily we all are I suppose, that there is no accounting for taste. I am disappointed, for example, that David Hume edged out Rab C Nesbitt in a poll of luminaries as to who was Scot of the millennium, preferring, as I normally do, men of action to those who spend a lifetime contemplating imponderables such as 'How long is a piece of string?' Rab lends practicality to this philosophical conundrum by actually wearing pieces of string, which we might politely call a vest.
And currently the Belgian people around Charleroi might now believe that hosting hordes of English and German supporters in June could only appeal to those for a taste in the macabre and see it as a perfect test of NATO's newly proposed rapid reaction force. …
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