ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Soccer vs the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics by Gabriel Kuhn
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THERE is a widely accepted idea that football emerged from working-class culture, went through a golden age as the people’s game and then sold its soul to Sky, Adidas and Coca Cola.
But Soccer vs the State, Gabriel Kuhn's lively and painstaking examination of the sport’s hidden history and competing cultures, reveals a more complex narrative.
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