Is Manchester United a Beautiful Team?
Not on the basis of their first half behaviour against Arsenal today.
Their first offense is manager Sir Alex Ferguson's gamesmanship: he started to work on referee Howard Webb early when he made perfectly reasonable foul calls. Sir Alex was trying to create conditions not conducive to beautiful football, nor within the actual rules of the game.
The second offense is the fouling itself: Vidic fouled Fabregas in the penalty area, Evra received a yellow and Hargreaves a yellow for fouls. These fouls impede beauty.
The third is the poor sportsmanship of Andersson who dives and play acts in getting Fabregas a yellow card--who in fact pulled out of the tackle.
Terrible stuff.
Is Ferguson a fraud? Does he really protect talent and beauty?
It seems that he is not interested in the beautiful game at all and merely uses it.
He simply does whatever it takes to win.
Playing attacking football and wanting only HIS skillful players to be able to play does not add up to the beautiful game, nor most definitions of beauty, as beauty is dependent on a core of goodness.
And goodness in the case of football begins simply with playing within the rules.
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