On Winning and Losing
When one team wins and another team loses…
Did the winning team play better or did the losing team play worse?
It’s so hard to know.
This is even more true, possibly, when a team that has been losing against another…
All of a sudden wins…
Perhaps even dominates.
Did they get miraculously better?
Or
Is the other team all of a sudden worse?
Who really knows?
You read the papers of opinions of those who believe they know.
Sometimes they are right…
And sometimes they are wrong.
It’s a coin toss really.
See, no one really knows.
We all try and look clever by guessing…
Yep guessing how IT IS.
We find our own evidence to convince ourselves and then those around us.
Yet none of us really know.
The only ones who might know…
(And I say might know, because I think at times they don’t know either)
…are those within the teams.
They know what they are busy with.
What they are working on.
Where their focus is.
What they think and feel about their winning and losing.
As for the rest of us.
We don’t really know.
When one team wins and another loses all we know is that one won and one lost.
Beyond that is only a guess.