As play begins, the philosophers break from their proper football positions only to walk around on the pitch as if deeply pondering, and in some cases declaiming, their theories.
The game absorbs; it is meditative, entailing large periods of glum reflection, sessions of intense pondering in such positions as the ever-baffling silly point.
The insurgents are strongly idealised, there is no pondering of the rebels mistakes or questions concerning the peasantrys attitude towards the uprising.
