http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/mar/08/how-football-lost-touch-young-fans?guni=Keyword:news-grid%20main-2%20(New%20Review)%20Pickable%20with%20editable%20override:Pickable%20with%20editable%20override:Position1
including these two quotes... "And in the year Peter Rodrigues became the most exotic-sounding footballer in Britain, nothing was more normal than a boy trundling along the street with a plastic football at his feet, lost in his own world and finding his way in it at the same time. Where are those boys now? I look out of the window of my flat in north London and I don't see kids playing in the street, or walking home with steam on their shoulders and scabs on their knees, hotly contesting a goal that never was. I see them ferried instead between "play dates" in 4x4s, faces so blurred behind the windows they could be faces drawn on balloons. And when I do see children playing out on the streets, occasionally, I don't see a childhood I recognise." "Because the difference between seats and terraces is the difference between a form of entertainment and a form of culture… We've lost the culture." _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER
