[lit-ideas] Re: Hereabouts
- From: david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 22:15:30 -0700
On Oct 3, 2016, at 6:26 PM, Donal McEvoy (Redacted sender "donalmcevoyuk" for
DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At the end of an otherwise impeccable post, David rashly concludes:
Perhaps my response should have been off-list.>
No. No. And no. We need much more Arsenal on the list.* It's a list that has
too long suffered from the dead hands of Wittgenstein, Popper and Grice and a
cast of others none of whom ever played for Arsenal, won a league and cup
double or went a whole season without defeat. Arsenal may save this list when
speculations about implicature, unsayability, falsfiability, as well as
everything else from the US Civil War to girlish attitudes, could not.
Well then possibly I should raise the subject of shinty leagues and the
internicine fighting that has been going on, which is not a subject I know
anything about or was aware of until I typed Premier Leagues (Shinty) into my
search engine and got this:
Traditional shinty was not played on a league basis, with challenge matches and
cups taking precedence but over time in different areas, league shinty began to
develop. The Southern League was the first of its kind, founded in 1902, and
encompassed the Central Belt of Scotland. At that time, there were several
clubs in Glasgow itself. In the North region, shinty was organised into the
MacGillivray Leagues. This league was one step ahead of the rest of the South
district which took sometime after the Second World War
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World_War> to develop the Dunn Leagues,
which encompassed, Cowal <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowal>, Lorn
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne,_Scotland> and Argyll
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyll>.[3]
<
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ig41AAAAIBAJ&sjid=q6ULAAAAIBAJ&pg=4377,5849075&dq=dunn+league+shinty&hl=en>
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Skeabost_Horn.JPG>
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Skeabost_Horn.JPG>The Skeabost Horn - The
trophy for competition in the old Southern Shinty Leagues in Central Belt
Scotland
Eventually the Dunn and Southern Leagues amalgamated and by the early 1980s a
national league playoff was established between the winners of the top tiers of
the north and south leagues.
In 1996, a national Premier Division was established for the first time and
then in 1999, a second national tier was established, National Division One
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Division_One_(shinty)>, which was
disbanded after 2006.[4]
<
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/access/69667443.html?dids=69667443:69667443&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+04%2C+2001&author=Fraser+MacKenzie&pub=Sunday+Herald&desc=Shinty+getting+tied+down+by+money+shackles&pqatl=google>[5]
<
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/access/70139565.html?dids=70139565:70139565&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+18%2C+1999&author=Fraser+Mackenzie&pub=Sunday+Herald&desc=Shinty+bridges+the+traditional+north-south+divide&pqatl=google>
When the shinty playing season switched from a winter to summer season, the
whole league system was replaced by an "interim" league season for the autumn
and winter of 2003. The league titles available under this system are
considered to be equivalent titles to other league titles, especially by
Kingussie.
The Camanachd Association board of directors discussed the future of the league
structure in December 2010 with a reduction of the Premier Division to 8 teams
being mooted.[6]
<
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/2026552?UserKey=> What resulted
by 2013 was a controversial return to a National Division model with a
reduction in the number of teams in the Premiership to 8 from 10. This
development caused a great deal of controvesry and resulted in a fiery Special
General Meeting which saw the Board use company law to ensure that the required
75% majority to overturn the decision was not achieved.[7]
<
http://www.whfp.com/2013/05/03/clubs-face-uphill-battle-to-overturn-shinty-league-revamp/>
Well, what do you know?
Go Kingussie.
Blow the Skeabost Horn, why don’t you?
David Ritchie,
who counts shinty as one of the few sports he hasn’t tried in
Portland, Oregon
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