The Great Traditions of British Sport

“Passion and Commitment” meet “Traditional Working Class Values”.

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Of course, I watched this kind of thing obsessively in the 1970s, absolutely agog and entirely unaware that there was anything ersatz about it. Disillusion was exemplary. But it’s given me a nose for the fake and the plastic, and this traditional-values stuff in football smells of it.