Showing posts with label Missing The Revolution For The Football. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Missing The Revolution For The Football. Show all posts

Friday, November 20, 2009

Missing the revolution for the football

. . . but in fact this is my favourite football quote (quote? OK, maybe more anecdote) of the day:

At a meeting in Manchester in around 1970, I hears the following exchange:

Speaker: "The bourgeoisie needs football. Football is part of the way they control the working class. It's virtually the only thing preventing a revolution. If they got rid of football there'd be a revolution in Britain."

Heckler: "Yeah... three o'clock next Saturday!"

Anecdote by 'jgw' in the comments box of Luna 17 blog.