And I thought Newcastle were bad…
Just imagine a purely hypothetical scenario where some of your colleagues are returning to work after their first game in a new five-a-side football league for employees of your organisation. Innocently, you ask how they got on, only to be met with rather flinty looks and the information that they had managed to lose by twenty-two goals to nil.
Now this isn’t American Football, or rugby, or basketball where it’s theoretically possible to score more than one point at a time. No, this is proper football. Meaning that in the purely hypothetical scenario described above, where they were hypothetically playing for half an hour, they have managed to concede goals at the rate of one every seventy-nine seconds.
And in that hypothetical scenario, there were five of them. One was in goal, and none of them were eighty years old or unconscious.
So, my hypothetical question about this hypothetical situation is this: how long would it be hypothetically appropriate to torment hypothetical workmates about a hypothetical defeat of this nature? And would it be appropriate to mention such an event — were one to occur — on one’s personal website, for others to read about it?
ahsteele says:
January 21st, 2008 at 11:56 pm
I’d say immediately. Getting beat that bad at anything requires a sense of humor.
For the record when I saw the headline I thought you were talking about an American beer and was about to recommend some tasty alternatives. I realize this makes me an uninformed American.
mark fairlamb says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:21 am
do they need a hypothetical player?
JackP says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:10 am
In their defence, the team they played have now just gone on to beat someone else 14-0, so it’s obvious that they are a fairly decent team.
I have my suspicions that they have been cheating by doing stuff like “playing as a team”, “running about a bit”, “passing to each other” and so on.
Chris Hunt says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Until the hypothetical arrival of Kevin Keegan to sort them out?