Football + Ballet = Shit²

With "The Beautiful Game" English National Ballet and the New Football Pools have decided it's a good idea to recreate ten great footballing moments through the medium of dance.

They are wrong.

In the video above Jenna Lee says "At first we weren't sure it would work because, football and ballet, you don't put them in the same sentance"

Wrong again.

Shostokovitch said "Football is the ballet of the masses".

Back in 1930 the 23-year-old Dimitri Shostokovitch composed music for a football based ballet "The Golden Age". The story revolved around a Russian football team visiting the imaginary 'U-Town' in Europe for an Olympic style event. The story eventually demonstrated pure, young Soviets overcoming the temptations of the decadent West.

Amusingly despite being a rabid football fan Shostokovitch was also a pessimist and would regularly bet against his own team.

So Jenna, you would put football and ballet in the same sentence if you were talking about a famous ballet featuring football that's been around for over 70 years. Or alternatively you could put them in a sentence like this:

That new ENB football ballet looks fucking shit.

Apart from the fact that they are both shit and involve effeminate men feigning distress I don't know much about ballet or football. But isn't ballet supposed to be synchronised to some extent? They look all over the place, the keepy-uppy and never walk alone clips are especially cringeworthy.