Football or Rugby?

In short we can’t get on together, and we are harassed with laws on harassment, bullied into submission to anti-bullying policies, and stressed out with personal injury claims for stress.  In the meantime we can’t do anything productive and so UK plc goes down the tubes.  There is only one answer to all this in my opinion, and it was promoted by the pioneers of that ancient and roughest of all sports called rugby.  The ancient school, where legend has it this sport first sprang into life, espouses the motto ‘by prayer and work’.

Rugby is a real man’s game.  They say real men play rugby.  They say real men pray.  What is a black eye between friends?  Foul up, then get sent to the sinbin to repent or cool down. 

Football on the other hand is for the preeners and poofters, the whingers, those that practice deceit, and cunning, and craftiness, that cry foul when there is no foul, that harass and intimidate the referee, that complain, the actors, the liars, the feigners, the prima-donnas, the jokers, the vain, the soft-hearted, the mommy’s boys, those that have no respect for the opposition, the referee or the game.  Disputes often spill out into the streets and sometimes into the law-courts.

Which game is most like the modern workplace in your opinion?   So let go of your grievances and pray about them instead, stop wasting everyone’s time, peddling nonsense and interrupting the game or the productive work.

They say ‘the love of money is the root of all evil’.  Jesus calls us to love our neighbour instead, not to use our neighbour on the way to earning ourselves and our partners and accomplices a fortune.  If we can combine prayer and work, then maybe we can help to steer ourselves, the company, the economy, the nation, and even the world along the straight and narrow ‘which leadeth unto life’.