Thirty years on, the basic premise of Football Against the Enemy illustrates a different world where the game was a point of resistance against control and oppression
This summer it will be 30 years since an event that helped inspire what is still one of the most deliciously moreish football books in English.
Football Against the Enemy is a collection of excellent, energetically compiled essays by Simon Kuper. It can seem a little dated in parts now, postcards from a world still shrouded in pre-internet mist but in a week of apparently irresolvable moral confusion over Pep Guardiola, yellow ribbons and all that, it also feels like a point of illuminating contrast.
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To anyone born after Kuper’s book was published football is not a part of the counter-culture. It is the culture itself
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