Football claims it’s not political. The Özil affair shows it is - just on the wrong side | Afua Hirsch
By only reacting to controversy when profit is at stake, clubs do more damage to their image than any players’ comments could
by Afua Hirsch
Dec 17, 2019
3 minutes
What is a modern-day hero? I re-read To Kill a Mockingbird recently – now that it has been adapted for theatre and will soon arrive in London’s – and realised how much my perspective on the book has changed. Yes, lawyer Atticus Finch chooses to defend an innocent black man in the highly racist environment of the Jim Crow US south. But he also tells his children to remain neutral in the face of bigotry, making sure they empathise with racists by trying to “crawl around in someone else’s skin”.
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