on 13/4/01 3:26 PM, Jon Entine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Randall--it is what I know. They won the Olympic gold medal, which was
> merely a slip of keyboard. Either way, the point is made: your "thesis" is
> pure speculation and conflicts with all the evidence. Mine is congruent with
> all the evidence.
It is basic errors like this that make me wonder how much of the rest of
what John Entine says is correct. The Olympic football tournament is not
nearly as prestigious as the World Cup. It is a junior tournament for
players under 23 years of age, with three overage players in each squad. The
big European countries don't send full squads because their players are on
league duty. Indeed there is no British team in the tournament
Granted Nigerians are better at football than Kenyans, they are a little bit
better than the Egyptians and Tunisians and Europe has plundered their
players. The Nigerians are better than the South Africans as well but
football is an even bigger deal in South Africa.
There are many factors that stop Kenyans from being good at football. I'm
not a physiologist but their body "types" look good for footballers to me.
Apart from eating and drinking, the two things I know about are athletics
and football and I have seen so many basic errors of fact in John Entine's
posts that I have to question the rest of his scholarship.
Randall Northam
