THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE LEAST IMPORTANT THINGS
by Kenan Malik
This essay, on the meaning of sport at a time when there isn’t any, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 19 April 2020, under the headline ‘It’s not just the spectacle we crave. Sport also offers identity, pride, hope’. I tried. I really did. But I simply could not get into it. Belarusian football, that is. As coronavirus has brought life to a standstill across the globe, so sport has disappeared from our calendar. And many sports, […]
Categories: Sport • Tags: belarus, bill shankly, coronavirus, david papineau, fever pitch, football, hillsborough disaster, jurgen klopp, liverpool fc, lockdown, nick fornby, noam chomsky
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