4/10/2023 0 Comments The way to the woods indie game![]() ![]() Indeed it is becoming an alien phenomenon, something that can disturb the equilibrium of our lives, something that we can actually come to resent. The truth is no longer something that can cancel out a lie, it is just another narrative. Our old friend Rupert Murdoch had admitted Fox News presenters didn’t believe Trump’s lie that the election had been stolen and Rishi Sunak blurted out the truth about Brexit, rhapsodising the good fortune of Northern Ireland with its access to the UK and the EU Single Market.īut nothing happened, as such. ![]() Last week in this column we were looking at two Big Lies of our time which had been debunked by the liars themselves. Then again, everyone sort-of knew that, it just took a court case on another continent to put it in writing - leaving the Premier League with its “legally binding assurances” which were manifestly false, and which must now be unravelled? The truth is no longer something that can cancel out a lie It rewards talent rather than privilege, it is one arena where sometimes you do get what you deserve. It was probably Eamon Dunphy who popularised most forcibly this idea that the game of “life” may be rigged, but that sport is better than that. Yet there is a more profound corruption here, the abandonment of the sense that football was a kind of safe space in which some forms of truth and even justice were always accessible. I did watch Southampton v Leicester, because you should never not watch a football match. On your Dodgy Box, I am told, you can have 57 games, and nothing withheld for their own dark purposes by the forces of corporate cynicism.īut of course this is not just a quality-of-football issue. Even for them it can get like that Bruce Springsteen song, 57 Channels (and Nothin’ On). Yes, Liverpool beating Manchester United 7-0 was a boon - a reminder that Rupert Murdoch did one good thing in his life by destroying the traditional Sunday and turning it into Super Sunday - but too often even those with all the subscriptions are finding themselves strangely unsatisfied. Or, to use its more common name, a Dodgy Box.Ī nationwide crackdown on the Dodgy Box was declared last week, and indeed most of us know someone who has one, maddened to the point of irretrievable breakdown by the sort of game Sky showed last Saturday night, Southampton v Leicester. Up to three times a year these visions rise up to torment him - at the start and end of the season, and perhaps at Christmas - visions of what might be a Pandora’s Box. On your Dodgy Box, I am told, you can have 57 gamesīut now he is visited by increasingly dark visions in which this last outpost of truth may no longer be sustainable. ![]()
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