Thursday night is not only about a game of football, it's about giving you a chance to engage in the nearest thing to urban warfare, the survival of the fittest, a chance to pit your wits against your fellow man without hurting them too much.
Let's take last Thursday for instance, an even battle until re-enforcements came riding over the hill shifting the power balance in favour of the Nazi storm troupers, forcing the British back into their trenches. The british renown for their gritty never say die attitude would surely fight to the death shoulder against shoulder so that good old blighty would be safe from tyranny and our children could sleep safely in their beds. But amazingly the army from our Emerald isles crumbled and let the Taliban invaders walk all over them.
What could have possibly gone wrong?
Well one of the freedom fighters decided he'd go up front and not stand shoulder to shoulder with his comrades, thinking if he surrendered he would get away unscathed and live to fight another day. This upset his brothers in arms and they would now have to fight harder to compensate for the dead weight. But incredibly another one of their own decided to go for a drink of water, then another, and another, before walking away from the battlefield with no thought for his team mates who had to battle on bravely and left the field bloodied, battered, but heroes in defeat.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results -
Andrew Carnegie
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
aristotle
Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds -
Alf Ramsey
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization -
Tom Plant
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together -
Aled Jones
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much -
Ronan Keating
A £100 gold chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.
H Samuel
Individually, we are one drop. Together we are an ocean -
M Stanway
I guess if a person didn't quit when the going got tough,
they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their
life."
Lance Armstrong in the movie "Dodgeball"
Or am i taking this too seriously?
I think this image is very fitting to the situation.