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Football: a moral force for good?

Moral Maze

CHAPTER

The Return of the Repressed in English Football Culture

Ellis Cashmore talks to Nathan Mote, the Portugal national team correspondent. He says football is an inherently moral activity - but it's not transcendental. The sport has been sanitised for audiences who don't have a local or intergenerational connection with it. But he argues that even moments like those of Anthony Taylor remind us of the moral universe we live in.

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