A rumination on Franklin Foer's new book about soccer and globalization. I've seen some cockamamy explanations for the US antipathy towards the world's game, but Jack Kemp's suggestion that American football (that pampered welfare queen) is more 'capitalistic' than red-in-tooth-'n'-claw international soccer is particularly absurd and/or sad.
Posted by Alan Allport at July 1, 2004 02:58 AM