THE JOYLESS WORLD CUP: RED CARD

"‘Sport, espe­cially inter­na­tional sport, is just polit­ics by other means and soc­cer is that more than any other. It is, by some dis­tance, the world’s biggest and most pop­u­lar sport and any­one who tells you that it is not polit­ical is prob­ably mak­ing money off it. That is how it works."

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