I'm not pretending the majority of Spectators in the stadium looking at it in the same way I am.

So one thing I've Bean trying to do in my book is described different ways of seeing.

So the very same sporting event can be watched by two different people in two very different ways.

So I I call one set of Spectators the party's ends.

They're the people who were there primarily to see their team win, and they rather see their team win a bad game.

If it's soccer, they'd rather see a one nil win than a more dramatic 34 defeat.

But when I go and I know I'm not entirely alone, my interest is more aesthetic.

So I want both teams to play to the best of their ability.

Where's the party's on?

They'd be happy if the opposition of a really bad day and nothing works for them, and they just can't get their rhythm going.

Nothing works out, so they end up losing the, uh the purest.

It's someone who view sport aesthetically, wants to see a dramatic game.

They want to see winners and losers.

But they maybe don't mind who wins or who loses.

What I'm trying to do is defend an idea that's been our fashion for a little while.

The idea that there are different ways of seeing.

Now there's a story that illustrates this, and it comes from more regular aesthetics, not just aesthetics of sport, but the story I heard from an artist story, and it may be an apocryphal story, but here it goes, a take gallery.

A security guard found a tourist looking at a fire extinguisher that was mounted on the wall on The tourist was stroking that Shane putting their head to unsigned.

Standing back, the security guard realized that the tourists had made a mistake.

They thought that the fire extinguisher was an art exhibit, and it really just was a fire extinguisher.

The tourist in that story is seeing this object aesthetically.

The security guard Doesn't they see it what we might call purpose of Lee.

They just see it's something that's there for a purpose to be used in the event of fire.

Now, the philosophical question is, are they seeing exactly the same thing when they look at this fire extinguisher.

Now, one answer is, well, not quite because one person's taking a lot of aesthetic pleasure from the object.

They're admiring its shape, its cooler smoothness.

Where's the security guard?

Isn't okay, But we could push that question further.

Is it that the tourists and security guard are actually seeing the same thing but just having different thoughts about what they say, which we could call on accompaniment theory.

So their perception is accompanied by different thoughts?

Or is it that by having those different thoughts, they actually see something different?

Now I argue for that second alternative, which I'd call a perception theory, because the idea is that perception is something that occurs after the thinking.

So what we see can be influenced by what we believe on what we desire.

I think we can say exactly the same thing in the sporting case now.

The reason I first thought of this was that I attended AA football march in Edinburgh, uh, where passions were running high.

Uh, how of Midlothian were entertaining Celtic on Dhe?

There's a number of reasons for the rivalry there, partly religious, but also the city rivalry between Edinburgh and Glass girl.

I got a ticket with the hearts funds.

I didn't mind who will know lost.

I just wanted to see a good game and I found that the heart's funds around May.

They were protesting for every single decision, so the players would go for the ball.

It go out for just to throw in.

I could see should have been a Celtic throwing.

But the party's arms around me, who had an almost identical view on the same incident they were saying It's our ball is horrible hot now What was happening there?

Were they being dishonest?

I'm not sure they were.

It made me think that alot we aren't almost identical views on the same incident and almost identical retinal images that they may have actually been seeing the incident a different way because the desire for victory was so strong it was actually influencing their perception.