Joey Barton, the thinking man's footballer
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Your support makes all the difference.First he turned to George Orwell, then George Washington. But Barton is not alone in revealing the link between philosophy and the beautiful game. Nick Szczepanik discovers a cornucopia of thought for him to tweet.
Double think means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them
George Orwell on Graham Taylor's Five Live commentaries
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do
Jean-Paul Sartre reflects on the powerlessness of the managers once the lads cross the white line
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them
Aristotle on opponents diving to win late penalties
A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers
Albert Camus on Ryan Giggs
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself Ludwig Wittgenstein questions
Arsene Wenger’s belief in his young players
I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap
Jacques Derrida anticipates wantaway striker Carlos Tevez’s struggles at Man City
All wealth is the product of labour
John Locke explains why he still wants bags of running in midfield
Observation is always selective
Karl Popper on Arsene Wenger’s press conferences
Those who do not remember the mistakes of the past are condemned to relive it
George Santayana works on defending set plays in training
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death
Jean Jacques Rousseau at the DW Stadium
God is always on the side of the big battalions
Voltaire is philosophical about another late penalty awarded to Manchester United at Old Trafford
The superfluous is a very necessary thing
Voltaire on the Baby Bentley culture
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfilment
Jean Baudrillard is not a fan of Sky Sports’ football coverage
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare
Baruch Spinoza believes in those hours of practice on the training ground
Whereof one cannot speak, therof one must remain silent
Ludwig Wittgenstien on superinjunctions in the bad old days before Twitter
The perpetual struggle for room and food
TR Malthus remembers the queue for pies in the old main stand at Derby County
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible
George Orwell on the Premier League leaders
Four legs good, two legs bad
George Orwell on why it never pays to play the lone striker system
I wonder if we could conjure some magnificent myth that would in itself carry conviction to our whole community
Plato anticipates the formation of the Premier League
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