On Football, Opium And Popular Resistance: Not All Sports Are Created Equal – OpEd
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My friend is not an elitist. To the contrary, he has spent decades of his life fighting social inequality, racism and championing the rights of disadvantaged groups. Therefore, I was taken aback when he surmised that “football is the opium of the people”.
The reference, which summons a famous Marxist maxim about religion...