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I remember last summer I was watching my favourite club playing against the team who was by the time 2nd on league. It was a thriller. One of the most exciting

I remember last summer I was watching my favourite club playing against the team who was by the time 2nd on league. It was a thriller. One of the most exciting and beautiful matches I've ever seen. Both played beautiful football and had their changes. Still there were 0 shots during the game and it ended 0-0 as you can guess. I talked to my friend after match and he said he's never seen a more boring game. I was so confused that I only nodded and agreed. How on earth did he miss all the beauty in the game? This article made my day. Thanks for posting it.

losvedir 8y ago
This seems to me like the eternal tech discussion about the beauty of, say, Haskell vs. what it produces in the real world. For some people, the intrinsic elegance of the language is enough, while for others the language is just a means to an end. While I can perhaps appreciate the perspective that a game of football could be beautiful to someone when there are no shots, to me the movement and positioning and passing are all means to an end: setting up scoring opportunities. In general, I get sort of annoyed by things divorced from reality: math and science need their engineering, programming languages need their killer apps, and football strategies need their goals!