The Lost Charms of ‘Football,’ and of Life
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Takimag The Lost Charms of ‘Football,’ and of Life Professional players once were heroes, not celebrities. TakiMag Theodore Dalrymple Jun 22, 2026 12:01 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Americans, like Indians, have largely been immune to the charms of soccer, or what we in Europe call football, and so am I, though in my case it was not always so. Whether the current World Cup changes that remains to be seen. When I was a boy, I thought soccer was important, though never quite as important as Bill Shankly, the manager of Liverpool Football Club, thought it. He said that football was not a matter of life and death—it was much more serious than that.
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