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Football: a moral force for good?

Moral Maze

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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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