The pain. The penalties. The hairsplitting VAR decisions and astounding off-field politics. From ageing titans to miraculous ...

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For decades football was sullied by hooliganism. In 1985 the Sunday Times, a British newspaper, decried “a slum sport played in slum stadiums increasingly watched by slum people”. In “Among the Thugs” ...

Some of the questions Chuck Klosterman asks in his new book Football are questions you would expect a Chuck Klosterman book about football to ask: Why are Americans so obsessed with the sport? What ...