Authors' world cup

[kev67]

In the spirit of Monty Python's philosophers' world cup, we should do some authors' teams mebbe?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2gJamguN04

This is my starting 11 for England (19th century).

1 - Anthony Trollope
2 - Wilkie Collins
3 - Elizabeth Gaskell
4 - George Elliot
5 - Thomas Hardy
6 - Charlotte Brontë
7 - George Gissing
8 - Charles Dickens
9 - Jane Austen
10 - William Thackeray
11 - Emily Brontë

Sub: Anne Brontë, George Meredith, Benjamin Disraeli

[MANICHAEAN]

Would George Elliot by any chance be in deep cover wearing a unisex football kit, and what about the the players hot bath after the match?

You might care to ponder that as an inclusion in the Short Stories section. I for one, would be an avid reader. "Middlemarch" linesmen kindly avert your eyes.

[kev67]

Women footballers seem to wear the same sort of kit that the male footballers too. I don't think women look good in football shorts. They look better in hockey or netball kit. This reminds me when I visited ESPN several times to do with work. I remembered football was soccer over there, but forgot hockey was field hockey, otherwise they think you're talking about ice hockey.

[kev67]

See, wasn't such a crummy idea.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jul/11/the-literary-world-cup-readers-best-all-time-teams
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jun/19/play-the-literary-world-cup-nominate-your-all-time-top-team