During a
soccer game the other day, I witnessed
once again the
goalkeeper missing the same
goal four times in a row.
First he missed it in
real time. Then he missed it in
slow motion. Then he managed to miss it in the
reverse angle as well, and lastly
from behind!
A similar thing happened during a
corner. Even though the
players tried four times, the exact same thing happened every time.
Being the
researcher-kinda-
type I kinda am, I decided to
investigate.
I quickly located a former
soccer player and put
Guinness in him until he would let me into the
trade secrets.
"So.", I say. "What's with this '
replay' thing ?"
Name withheld (to avoid contamination) looked deeply into his beer and said,
"Oh, the
replay thing. It's terrible, terrible. That's the reason I no longer play,
y'know ? I was in the top until I started to play a bit
dirty, y'know ?"
"Do tell."
"You see, I started giving less than my best, and started playing a bit relaxed, like. Because I knew that I would get a few more
chances later on, most of them even in
slow motion."
"And...?"
"Then there was the
live television match.", he sighed, and looked at his empty glass.
I quickly moved over to the bar and picked up some more
beer. A reluctant
bartender and an argument about what I owed him delayed my
return to the table.
When I came back, the soccer player had vanished, leaving behind only an
abandoned corpse, and an
enormous bar tab.