The Goals Show // Deep-Fried Dopamine

Wednesday 29th January.
18 games on one evening.
An accumulator-builder's dream.
This is a gluttony of football.
One show promising to serve up this grotesque buffet of deep-fried dopamine hits.

"We go live to the San Siro"
"There's been an equaliser for City"
"Big chance for Benfica"

This is football reduced to its worst.
The beautiful game has nuance. It ebbs and it flows. 10 minutes of possession. Tiki taka. Tiki taka. Death by football.
And suddenly the run in behind!

The ongoing battle between winger and fullback.
A period of pressure which gets the crowd up.
Needle after a late challenge.
These are the narratives that football feasts on.

To reduce football to just goals, is to reduce jokes to just punchlines. There is no context. Context is king.

The page says "goal" but it's the characters, the scenery and the narrative that provide the true story.