Will the beautiful game a beautiful ballet make?

Far be it from me to prejudge (it's never stopped me in the past, I hear you remark) but English National Ballet's dance piece based around famous footballing moments sounds rather grim (and includes guest appearance, we are warned, from Alan Hansen). That said, Richard Williams, the Guardian's chief sports writer, and I have sometimes idly bantered about the thought of his using ballet terms to describe the leaps and elegant gestures of footballers on the field (I love the idea of his describing a footballer's grand jeté en avant, or pas chassé). Anyway, here is what Helen Pidd wrote when she saw the footballing ballet previewed yesterday. Personally, if I were after something slightly different at the ballet I might be more inclined to catch Scottish Ballet's newish Stephen Petronio work Ride the Beast, set to the music of Radiohead, which is about to tour Scotland (with a few nights at the Southbank Centre, London).