The World Cup and class struggle
Even for those of us who love sport, the saccharine liberal puff that accompanies any major sporting event can be a little nauseating. Once you realise that it’s not an insufficient quantity of football in the world that causes poverty, racism etc, and that these things cannot be magicked away by the unifying power of the beautiful game, you begin to begin to find things like FIFA’s “Win With Africa” campaign very tiresome: “The goal is to reach beyond football… FIFA hopes… to ensure the entire African continent will benefit from the long-term effects of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa TM...