the team captain is in charge of a football match.
the team captain is in charge of a football match.
who is in charge of a football match?
team captain
the names of the greek philosophers in the line-up are displayed in german in the sketch. despite the sketch, wittgenstein was in fact austrian and not german. supporting the main referee confucius as linesmen were st augustine and st thomas aquinas who were roman african and italian respectively.









































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inspired by the famous monty python sketch, and with the full backing of the surviving pythons, a tribute/replay of the philosophers' football match was held in north london, at wingate & finchley’s harry abrahams stadium, finchley on 9 may 2010.
the philosophers' football match
the philosophers' football match









































the philosophers' football match is a monty python sketch depicting a football match in the olympiastadion between philosophers representing greece and germany. starring in the sketch are archimedes (john cleese), socrates (eric idle), hegel (graham chapman), nietzsche (michael palin), marx (terry jones), and kant (terry gilliam). palin also provides the match television commentary.
the philosophers' football match