Comments on: What would a great goal be worth on the art market?

By: Martin Penner

Martin Penner — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:24:56 +0000

Of course you can compare football to art! If art is something that is beautiful or exciting to look at, which involves exceptional skill and even inspiration, then Ibra’s goal certainly counts.
I guess where a great goal differs from art is that the latter has usually been constructed with great care and attention over some time. Ibra’s strike was glorious because it involved a split-second reaction — it was conceived and executed in the blink of an eye.
And then the other thing about art, especially modern art, is that it is often art simply by virtue of the fact that someone says it is (see the Campbell soup cans). Or because the person who did it is accepted as an artist. Well, I think Ibra would have a lot of supporters on that front…

By: Wollocks

Wollocks — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:34:57 +0000

For a truly contemporary collection, one should check out Hull City’s Brazilian maestro, Geovanni. Three masterpieces already in this season’s Premiership.

By: njau

njau — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:36:32 +0000

what I really like about Zlatan is his lack of modest when he score those beauties, Who’s the man? he seems to ask, we are at times to modest to really enjoy life! Go Zlatan though am not Sure Mourinho and his defensive self deserves him, He wasted Arjen

By: Benjamin King

Benjamin King — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:12:43 +0000

All you have to do is watch Cesc Fabregas week in week out to agree that his artistic style of football is a lot better than some of the modern art being displayed worldwide.

By: denis greenan

denis greenan — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:37:00 +0000

Baggio 1990 vs Czechoslovakia a Raphael?
Archie Gemmel v Holland 1978 a Pollock?
Van Basten v USSR ‘88 a Monet?
Tenuous I know but I’m pretty sure Michelangelo anticipated Peter Withe’s winner for Villa against Bayern Munich in the 1982 European Cup Final.

By: Paul Anthem

Paul Anthem — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:17:34 +0000

Football will always affect me more than art (or is football art? that’s another debate).
Shouldn’t art I touch all our emotions and take us to corners of our mind otherwise unexplored? The fact is it’s hard to think anything could excite, depress, exhilarate or overwhelm me more than Istanbul in 2005 - as one of our banners says: “Picasso is a painter, Alonso is an artist, Basque in his glory”

By: Edoardo

Edoardo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:45:28 +0000

I remember couch Capello commenting something like “Cassano is poetry” few years ago, and my father, commenting the work of a macedonian tiler in our kitchen “he is an artist”. I think your views are extensive versions of the word “art”, which become in virgo’s and capello’s (and my father’s too) interpretation “whatever is well done”. Is this the real definition of art? Maybe yes (but i’d still prefer a minor piece by Picasso).

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By: matthew elam

matthew elam — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:58:21 +0000

1970 world cup final,Brazils fourth goal.
Three passes seem to be played at half speed.
Carlos alberto then appears from nowhere at 100 miles an hour,belts it in the corner
Its against the best defensive team in the world at the time.
I’m sorry but………… THAT IS ART.

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