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Gramscian Football

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

There are chilling moments in the life of any straniero when they realise that, with all the reflection, study, and will that certain ways of thinking, produced by local culture, tradition, and a very different history, will always be beyond them.
These are moments, more often than not, conjured up out of hot-air when politicos [...]

Why buy Kakà when, for the same price, you could get a whole Serie A team?

Monday, January 26th, 2009

This monkey has only a passing interest in football, and so found little of interest in the rumours that Brazilian star Kakà was to leave Berlusconi’s AC Milan. Little of interest until browsing the latest from  La Voce, the online magazine from some of Italy’s leading economists. The site posted an intriguing article by Tito Boeri [...]