DUTCH CAN DO

Fri. October 17, 2003
Categories: Abstract Dynamics

CRUYFF.jpg Tim’s comments below (on the United Response post) comparing football to music remind me of something Simon wrote ages ago where he made an analogy between Can and the Total Football of the Dutch team. What a fabulously suggestive parallel; I’ve never been able to think of Can and that classic Dutch side in quite the same way since. The elegant, almost telepathic interplay, the non-organic fluency and fluidity, the rhizomichaos of the group mind…. You see, you don’t know whether I’m talking about Can or the Dutch, do you?

2 Responses to “DUTCH CAN DO”

  1. -willem- Says:
    October 20th, 2003 at 9:07 am

    Hi. The Total football vs. Can article sounds like interesting fun to read, do you know whether it is available online somewhere?
    greetings from the NL, keep on blogging!

  2. Anonymous Says:
    October 20th, 2003 at 5:46 pm

    It wasn’t a whole article, as I recall, just a passing reference in a piece on Can.
    Thanks for the support…