Don't Take Us My Family. You Can't Do It.

Owen Dunphy says there is a class rift between soccer supporters and those within the game. Wealth inequality and the increasing intrusion of world geopolitics have created a class rift, he adds. It's hard to become invested in the faceless pile of cash behind a club logo - whether that cash is venture capital leveraged by it or the proceeds of dictatorial exploitation of a nation's resources. We only need to look at the renewed enthusiasm for the Irish soccer team's men's and women's to see that soccer still has that magic even in times of equivocal success. And I know I'm too late for hip-hop week, but a shout-out for turning it up,