I don't think I've seen it before. The three top strikers in a team, all getting clear-cut near-open goal chances, and all blowing it. Keane, Berbatov and Dent - they should be shot. Then fined, for wasting bullets.

Instead of losing 1-3 to Arsenal, the score could've easily been the other way round. But no. The three musketeers had to get butterfeet and lose the ball at the crucial moment (Berbatov), fire straight into the keeper (Keane) and/or botch the shot such that a keeper wasn't even necessary (Bent).

Sports is paradox. Most lives won't be different without it. But almost all lives are rubbed by it.

It's crazy and near-irrational to get upset about sports. But it'd be crazy and near-irrational to get upset with a fan whose team just lost and tell him, "It's just sports."

Sports is the most trivial thing in the world. It can also restore national pride, unite a nation, uplift the weary and make the people jump for joy - hardly trivial things.

Sports is a lot like philosophy, literature, theology and that whole range of disciplines many people don't seem to see the 'point' of. Exactly: There is no 'point'. To ask the question is to lose the essence.

Rambo: What are the rules?

Afghan friend: You take the sheep, pass it around and throw it in the circle.

Rambo: That's it? Why?

Afghan friend: Because there is a circle there.

Rambo: Right. Just like football.