If Peter Drury's to be believed, chess and football are pretty much the same thing. And, at last year's European Team Championship, you could have forgiven such commentators for saying so. To paraphrase Crisp Man:
"Chess is a game for 8 people that sit down, move some pieces, and
one arbiter who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always
wins."
Gazza ate Golden Wonder instead
So, in true Question of Sport style, here's my Chess XI. I doubt they'd get as much as a throw-in at Euro 2012, but perhaps that's a good thing. These chess similes in football commentaries need to stop. I'd keep Hodgson as manager though. Julian, that is.
A team comprising footballers who play chess ought to be doable. Off top of my head, chess playing footballers, or football-playing chessers, include:
ReplyDeleteAndrei Kanchelskis
Ossie Ardilles
Simen Agdestein
Zlato Zahovic
Karel Bruckner
Rafael Benitez
Lars Bo Hansen
Bela Soos
Torkil Nielsen
Denis Irwin
Eric Cantona
An unfortunate pre-tournament injury means that England won't be able to field the Man City midfield duo of Milner-Barry against the French tonight - though it would have always been a gamble.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course Spain had their Torres.
ReplyDeleteTorres is a footballer?
ReplyDeleteSpain also have Reina
ReplyDeleteThey do, but in Spanish the term Dama is used for that piece.
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