Comments on: What I’m Reading: April 21, 2007 http://cultureofsoccer.com/2007/04/21/what-im-reading-april-21-2007/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:44:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: David http://cultureofsoccer.com/2007/04/21/what-im-reading-april-21-2007/#comment-355 David Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:24:19 +0000 http://cultureofsoccer.com/2007/04/21/what-i%e2%80%99m-reading-april-21-2007/#comment-355 Jane - Glad to hear Jacqui Oatley acquitted herself well. We won't get to hear her in the US (no Match of the Day on this side of the Atlantic). Jane - Glad to hear Jacqui Oatley acquitted herself well. We won’t get to hear her in the US (no Match of the Day on this side of the Atlantic).

]]> By: Jane http://cultureofsoccer.com/2007/04/21/what-im-reading-april-21-2007/#comment-353 Jane Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:17:34 +0000 http://cultureofsoccer.com/2007/04/21/what-i%e2%80%99m-reading-april-21-2007/#comment-353 Heard Jaqui Oatley's first last night; she has played soccer herself, apparently at quite a high level. My other half, recently abroad so unaware of this ground-breaking move and the surrounding controversy, failed to notice the commentator was female until I pointed it out! On building stadiums and domestic poverty: same arguments arise over commissioning public works of art, viz "we could have a new school for what they paid for that!" Unfortunately the poor are never fed and clothed, nor the schools built, with the money States find for football stadiums, works of art, or weapons, come to that. At least this way they get get something nice. Heard Jaqui Oatley’s first last night; she has played soccer herself, apparently at quite a high level. My other half, recently abroad so unaware of this ground-breaking move and the surrounding controversy, failed to notice the commentator was female until I pointed it out!

On building stadiums and domestic poverty: same arguments arise over commissioning public works of art, viz “we could have a new school for what they paid for that!” Unfortunately the poor are never fed and clothed, nor the schools built, with the money States find for football stadiums, works of art, or weapons, come to that. At least this way they get get something nice.

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