The Genie and the Brass Lantern
I was walking down the road and spotted something glinting out of the corner of my eye, I bent down to pick it up and it was a dusty metallic object. I gave it a rub to polish it up a bit and all of a sudden a genie appeared from it.
“Congratulations” said the genie, “you have been selected to take part in the trial of a new project from the Magic Lantern Genie Company. As you are probably aware, for many years we have been offering a premium product where you are granted three wishes of your choice, but we hoping to introduce a new budget service which we have code named EasyJeanie (our marketing people are still working on the brand name)”
“Oh yes” says I, “tell me more, what does this involve?”
“Well, instead of the traditional three wishes you will only be given one, and instead of being a wish of your choice it is one of our choosing, but we will give you two options from which to choose”
“Okay” I said with some doubt in my mind “what wish will you be offering me?”
“I understand that you like football” said the genie “so your options are, either England win the World Cup or your club team can win one game of your choice next season”.
“Just one game for my club, versus England winning the World Cup? Doesn’t seem like a fair choice, is that it?”
“Yes, just one game” said the genie “but it will be the game of your choice, and you can make your choice at any point in the season. Even retrospectively, right up until an hour after the very last match of the season”
“So If Palace are in a relegation spot, a couple of points below 17th place, I can choose for one of the six pointers that we lost to have the result overturned to keep us up? Or if a similar change of results mean that Palace will be in Europe next season?”
“Yes” said the genie
“Would it count for cup games too”, I asked “if, for example, we got to the FA Cup final and lost, could I invoke the wish then?”
“Of course, even if it was against Brighton”
So, having heard this fairytale, what would you do in my position? Club or country?
I was walking down the road and spotted something glinting out of the corner of my eye, I bent down to pick it up and it was a dusty metallic object. I gave it a rub to polish it up a bit and all of a sudden a genie appeared from it.
“Congratulations” said the genie, “you have been selected to take part in the trial of a new project from the Magic Lantern Genie Company. As you are probably aware, for many years we have been offering a premium product where you are granted three wishes of your choice, but we hoping to introduce a new budget service which we have code named EasyJeanie (our marketing people are still working on the brand name)”
“Oh yes” says I, “tell me more, what does this involve?”
“Well, instead of the traditional three wishes you will only be given one, and instead of being a wish of your choice it is one of our choosing, but we will give you two options from which to choose”
“Okay” I said with some doubt in my mind “what wish will you be offering me?”
“I understand that you like football” said the genie “so your options are, either England win the World Cup or your club team can win one game of your choice next season”.
“Just one game for my club, versus England winning the World Cup? Doesn’t seem like a fair choice, is that it?”
“Yes, just one game” said the genie “but it will be the game of your choice, and you can make your choice at any point in the season. Even retrospectively, right up until an hour after the very last match of the season”
“So If Palace are in a relegation spot, a couple of points below 17th place, I can choose for one of the six pointers that we lost to have the result overturned to keep us up? Or if a similar change of results mean that Palace will be in Europe next season?”
“Yes” said the genie
“Would it count for cup games too”, I asked “if, for example, we got to the FA Cup final and lost, could I invoke the wish then?”
“Of course, even if it was against Brighton”
So, having heard this fairytale, what would you do in my position? Club or country?
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