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And here come the Germans now,
led by their skipper "Nobby" Hegel.
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They must surely start favorites this afternoon.
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They've certainly attracted the most attention
from the press with their team problems.
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And let's now see their line-up :
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The Germans playing 4-2-4, Leibniz in goal,
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back four Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Schelling,
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front runners Schlegel, Wittgenstein,
Nietzsche, and Heidegger,
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and the midfield duo of Beckenbauer and Jaspers.
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Beckenbauer obviously a bit of a surprise there.
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And here come the Greeks, led out by their veteran
centre half Herakleitos. Let's look at their team :
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As you'd expect, it's a much more
defensive line-up.
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Plato's in goal, Socrates a front
runner there, and Aristotle as sweeper.
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Aristotle, very much the man in form.
One surprise is the inclusion of Archimedes.
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Well, here comes the referee: K'ung fu-tsze
(Confucius) and his two linesmen,
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St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas.
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And as the two skippers come together to
shake hands we're ready for the start
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of this very exciting final.. The referee,
Mr. Confucius, checks his sand...and...
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...they're off!
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Nietzsche and Hegel there, Karl Jaspers
number 7 on the outside,
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Wittgenstein there with him. There's
Beckenbauer, Schelling's in there,
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Heidegger covering, Schopenhauer. And now it's
the Greeks. Epikuros, Plotinus number six,
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Aristotle, Empedokles of Acraga,
and Demokrites with him.
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There's Archimedes, Socrates, there he is, Socrates,
Socrates there going through... There's the ball, there's the ball!
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We'll be bringing you back to this exciting
contest the moment anything interesting happens.
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Very passable, this, eh? Very passable.
:38:53
Nothing like a good glass of
Château de Chasselet, eh, Josiah?
:38:54
Oh, you're right there, Obadiah.
:38:57
Who would have thought, thirty years ago, we'd
all be sitting here drinking Château de Chaselet, eh?