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The Dark Metaphor of War that Shrouds Football

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Football is talked of as
Battlegrounds
Two tribes going to war
Brothers in arms
Get stuck in
Great man to have in the trenches
Fight til the end
Do or die spirit
Great troopers
Warriors
Siege mentality….
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Notes

if footballl wants to shed itself of the hooligan element then it should shed the comparisons with war that it always resorts to; every time we play Germany we mention the….

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