I may come back to the Euro 2012 version of German vs Greek, which went down tonight, but we have to segue here to one of the most brilliant soccer parodies ever recorded.

Talking about the German v Greek Philosophers’ Football Match done by the English comedy troupe Monty Python some 40 years ago.

You can find that video here, and then come back for a bit more.

Here is the transcript of the sketch, which lays bare all the wonderful nuggets.

(It’s hard to pick it all up, as you listen, because the narrator is speaking very quickly, and the English accent makes a bit tricky, too.)

My favorite bit comes after the goal, and is really hard to pick up:

“The Germans are disputing it. Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside. But Confucius has answered them with the final whistle! It’s all over! Germany, having trounced England’s famous midfield trio of Bentham, Locke and Hobbes in the semi-final, have been beaten by the odd goal, and let’s see it again.”

Brilliant stuff. Wonderful. And the timing of “and Marx is claiming it was offside” slays me. I love this sketch, and it makes me laugh every single time I see it.

The odd thing was that I didn’t remember the Germany-Greece thing earlier — the Euro 2012 game and the Python sketch.