When a recent television news programme showed a footballer called 'Wayne Rooney' kicking another footballer, I thought 'I bet he wouldn't be any good at flower arranging'.
It was a surprising association of ideas, because there was nothing about flowers in that programme, and I handn't been thinking about them before I watched the programme.
Perhaps there is a primitive inclination to connect similar things, and to infer that something ugly, like Master Rooney, could not produce something beautiful like a flower arrangement. Certainly Philosophers have often claimed that an effect ought to resemble its cause. I think that assumption unwarranted.
Perhaps if only Wayne Rooney took up flower arranging he would excel, and at the same time become less unpleasant.
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Though by no means a follower of football, I have had occasion to watch Wayne Rooney on the field and can testify that his mastery of the game displays not only physical grace and athleticism, but also, in his ability to mislead and wrong-foot other players, sending them careening in the wrong direction while opening up opportunities for himself and his team, real quickness of thought and pleasing economy of effort.
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