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Football: a moral force for good?

Moral Maze

CHAPTER

The Negative Element of Football

I think racism has been expelled from the terraces in Western, Northern, and Southern Europe. I personally don't think that there are sports fans who are perpetrating these kind of epithets. They're probably just malevolent geeks who want to bring the sport into disrepute. But let's not run away with the fact that this is a nice place to be. We still have plenty of violence. And also, the big political problem with football is that it is a massive distraction. When I was a student many moons ago in the 19th, and under-grathered in the 1970s, the popular theory of football was premised on Marx's opiate idea that

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