In soccer, it’s not the disappointment that kills you; it is the ever-renewed sense of hope. - Simon Critchley, writing in the New York Review of Books. Or as John Cleeses character put it in the movie Clockwork, Its not the despair I mind - its the hope! Soccer is an oddly amnesiac activity, in the sense that spectators tend to look toward the next game rather than remember the last one or the lost one. In Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound... Prometheus says he sowed in human beings blind hope, as a way of forestalling doom. There is something of this in the soccer fan. nybooks/blogs/nyrblog/2014/jun/22/ninety-minute-anxiety-dream/
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