2022

How is soccer like God? Each inspires devotion among followers and distrust in intellectuals.
In 1902 in London, Rudyard Kipling made fun of soccer and those who contented their souls with ’the muddied oafs at the goals.’ Three-quarters of a century later in Buenos Aires, Jorge Luis Borges was more subtle; he gave a lecture on the subject of immortality on the same day and at the same hour that Argentina was playing its first match in the 1978 World Cup.
The scorn of many conservative (…)