We get huge numbers of comments across Guardian Unlimited’s blogs these days and - contrary, perhaps, to many people think - the standard is often very high. But one comment, appended to the sports blog post introducing the latest edition of Football Weekly (now Britain’s top sports podcast - we’re very pleased) takes the biscuit. Writes “Sidekick” from Canada:

“Podcast team: I’m rather glad at least one of you found the Gramsci stuff interesting. Not to be a complete prick here, but I really do think that philosophy has its place in football and vice versa.

For example, I was thinking deeply about the recent calls for technological measures to make sure the “correct” refereeing decisions are made (i.e.goal line camera technology; shinpad-embedded offside chips; video replay officiating). This seems to me to be indicative of what Heideggereans recognise as the decentering of human agency in favour of the technological enframing of existence. “Truth” is becoming more and more something we entrust to the objectifying metaphysical shift away from subjectivity that, as Heidegger notes, leaves the individual human alienated from Being.

In short, the technological paradigm of existence we are currently experiencing means that scientific application is invading every space of experience and culture - invalidating the idiosyncracies of the individual (”bad” referee calls; “judgment”) in favour of the “truth” (technologically “proven” facticity).

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Anyway, the only technology that’ll make England look good at the moment is a radical dose of CGI. We are shite.”

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