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Football: a moral force for good?

Moral Maze

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The Power of Football

Fans still have the passion, but they increasingly feel they're being taken for a ride and being exploited. Does it matter if football just becomes another big business for investment funds to make money? I've ended up feeling that there's something wrong with my love of football. That's not a good thing. And I think whilst we can demonize football, those deeply human urges still exist. It serves as a reasonable expression of those things in the absence of others. For many people, right, you're wrongly, does provide that deeply human urge towards ritual collective expression of emotion,. identification, particularly kind of tribal identity, and something to devote to and to venerate.

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