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What Football means to Italy!

They’ve won again. The Italians have won again, 31 games unbeaten. Unlike the group campaign, Italy didn’t play exhilarating football. They didn’t wipe the floor with Austria. There was no sense of inevitability. Rather, Italy suffered and Austria made them. They were wound through the wringer, battered and bruised, and were often compelled to thinkContinue reading “What Football means to Italy!”

The Fallacy of Ideology and Actuality

The players, Gareth Southgate, and the FA have time and again felt the need to reiterate that they are indeed fighting against racial inequality, injustice and discrimination. That taking the knee is not aligned with a political organization or ideology. That Black Lives Matter is a movement that is adopted to shed light on theContinue reading “The Fallacy of Ideology and Actuality”

Why do we follow football clubs?

I hadn’t followed football until I was 12. 2010 world cup in South Africa was the first time I observed the fervor and frenzy of football and just how big the sport is. I distinctly remember South Africa, the supposed underdog, scoring the opening goal and the ever-articulate Peter Drury said ‘A goal for allContinue reading “Why do we follow football clubs?”