Keys, Gray and Allardyce talk football, or are they talking about something else? | Marina Hyde
There are those who talk about sport to avoid the weightier issues of the day, and then there are those who magically manage to combine the two without you even realising itThe nights draw in, November is upon us, and it is time to gather round for another episode in our occasional series What We Talk About When We Talk About Football.As anyone who has spent any time trying to avoid difficult conversations knows, football (and indeed all sport) is perhaps the greatest proxy subject ever created. It provides such helpful cover for a range of repressed upsets, inchoate resentments and subclinical neuroses that, as life goes on, many find it the subject which they feel safest and most comfortable...