Boys playing football in London on April 8, 1950.
"... Undeniably the beautiful game has of late become especially ugly. In
A People’s History of Football, French climate journalist and
Le Monde diplomatique correspondent Mickaël Correia argues that things have not always been this way — or at least not to such a grotesquely indefensible extent. The world’s most popular sport has an alternative, 'antiestablishment' history, which Correia seeks to uncover and defend. Though he dwells on the 'subversive aspect' of football, Correia is hardly a romantic. ...
A People’s History of Football left this reader with the melancholic sense that an adversarial and popular vision of the game is quickly disappearing. It’s now unimaginable that a player would, as Brazil’s midfielder Sócrates did in 1984, justify their move to an Italian club by saying that doing so would provide them with an opportunity to read Antonio Gramsci in the original. ..."
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