Football as literature

<p>Football as Literature adopts semiotics as a framework to compare football (soccer) to literature. The football field is akin to the plot or stage in narrative or dramatic modes respectively and the players are viewed as characters whose metamorphoses in the text of football are occasioned from the label of their positions to the completeness of the plot by the kinetic power of the ball. In employing this commentary a standard football match is seen as a representation of the active text. Particularly without commentary football unfolds as an unspoken semiotic narrative. Football is seen therefore as existing in a continuum of signification encapsulated especially in the acknowledged genres of literature.</p><p><br></p>