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The stadium is one of the most honest places in the world, not because people become different there but because they stop pretending to be. On selective morality, conditional belonging and the principles that only reveal whose side they were on once the badge has changed.
Read on Substack →The first essay in a series on football, identity and selective morality. Later pieces will examine conspiracy narratives, conditional belonging, institutional hypocrisy and religious prejudice in greater depth.
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