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Why is football more interesting than politics?
Sweden played against Italy in the European Championships yesterday. I watched the game together with some friends. We ate pizza, drank some beer and ate snacks. A perfect Friday evening in front of the telly after a long busy week.
Italy played good, very good, putting a lot of pressure on the Swedes. We have goalkeeper Isaksson to thank for the fact that they only managed to score once.
It was a very exciting game and we were all very in to it, commentating on everything just like the experts in the tv-studio. When the time was almost up, Sweden�s Zlatan Ibrahimovic, made a lucky shoot and flicked the ball sort of backwards with the outside of his boot and scored!
The game ended 1-1 but after almost counting on Italian victory, it felt like we won anyway.
On my way home I started thinking� what if everybody would have been this enthusiastic and keen to discuss the elections to the European Union that took place last weekend. What if we would have gathered with pizza and beer at a friend�s house to watch the final debate between the candidates before going to vote? What is it that football has that politics don�t?
Maybe politics has something to learn from football?
The Swedish Minister for Justice, Thomas Bodström, who was in the studio yesterday commentating the game, is a former Swedish Premier League football player. Why don�t he learn his politician colleagues to play some football. It can�t hurt and it might even revitalize the whole political scene� :-)
