Mark Perryman has written on International Footballism. That is neither Infantino or Trump but enjoying the football, perhaps with others in a pub or cafe, from the other end as it were, from below.
There are things to celebrate and discuss and analyse that don’t require the TV pundits or the ability to actually go to the US and pay for a match ticket.
Of course neither Marx or Engels were football fans, for a Marxist analysis Eric Hobsbawm is a good starting point.
Finally as usual Perryman ignores cricket. While there is football World Cup mostly in the US there is a women’s T20 cricket World Cup in England for the next few weeks, ending with a final at Lords on July 5th.
One of the countries that gets the biggest audiences in global sport, India, is a contender and the reality is that just as football is the dominant game in the UK, cricket has the same place in the sub-continent.
Neither Trump nor Infantino but International Footballism – Philosophy Football
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” A nation of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people” Eric Hobsbawm.
Cricket? Never knowjngly ignored but a World Cup consisting of just 20 overs apiece is a modernisation much no self-respecting Trotskyist, let alone an unrepentant revisionist, should endorse. 5-day Test Match? Now you’re talking.
I like the 5 day format of course but the left needs to relate to where people are (mostly short form around the globe) not where we might like them to be
Keith thsatg was from me Mark Perryman but for some reason an other’s name appears
I gathered! No idea what the other handle is there!
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