BOWDEN QUOTES PLATO

The parallels between the great philosopher and the great football coach are legion. Of course, the most striking difference between Bowden and Socrates is that Socrates actually refused to have sex with his proteges. And I hear Alcibiades was hung like Kameron Wimberley.

Despicable comment, and maybe the best of the week.

Nice, but I thought that those Greek Philosophers played a different kind of football…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophers’_Football_Match

Here it is, the link is not working properly:

The Philosophers’ Football Match was a comedy sketch on Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

The sketch depicted a football (soccer) match between philosophers representing Greece and Germany, including Plato, Socrates and Aristotle on the Greek team, and Heidegger, Marx and Nietzsche on the German team. Instead of playing, the philosophers competed by thinking. This left Franz Beckenbauer, the sole genuine footballer on the pitch (and a “surprise inclusion” in the German team, according to the commentary), more than a little confused. Confucius was the referee and Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine were the linesmen.

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Full lineups
Germany

1 Leibnitz
2 I. Kant
3 Hegel
4 Schopenhauer
5 Schelling
6 Beckenbauer
7 Jaspers
8 Schlegel
9 Wittgenstein
10 Nietzsche (booked; dissent)
11 Heidegger
Karl Marx came on as substitute for Wittgenstein late on; the manager was Martin Luther.

Greece

1 Plato
2 Epiktet
3 Aristotles
4 Sophokles
5 Empedokles Von Acraga
6 Plotin
7 Epikur
8 Heraklit
9 Demokrit
10 Sokrates (captain)
11 Archimedes
(spellings are German transliterations from the original Greek names, these appear in the captions of the original TV programme, filmed in Germany)

Socrates scored the only goal of the match in the 89th minute, a diving header from a cross from Archimedes. Note that Sócrates was indeed a Brazilian soccer player.