"Lacking any real vision for its own future, football has allowed television to lead it into the modern age while it itself continues to gaze backwards, still seeing itself as some kind of repository for attitudes towards work, class and community. Never can there have been a British phenomenon so trashy, so plastic and yet so full of a past that was none of those things."
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James Hamilton - War, Football and the Death of the Future
(not sure where I found it, was sitting in an open tab this morning…)
