Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

Simon Kuper

Tag: sports soccer fan

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Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

Simon Kuper

Tag: sports national-unity

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You don't have to be charming to be a fan among fans.

Simon Kuper

Tag: fan

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It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.

Simon Kuper

Tag: sports soccer

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The club is not a business. It's a populist democracy.

Simon Kuper

Tag: economy decision-making football-clubs

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Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.

Simon Kuper

Tag: stupidity football business

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