I went to Rome last month to watch the latest instalment of Operazione Nostalgia: a rolling celebration of the glory days of Italian football.
And what I realised was that more than people miss Totti, Veron and Zanetti, they miss how football made them feel.
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I went to Rome last month to watch the latest instalment of Operazione Nostalgia: a rolling celebration of the glory days of Italian football.
And what I realised was that more than people miss Totti, Veron and Zanetti, they miss how football made them feel.
observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
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Managers in modern football have less power and less responsibility but seem to get just as much of the blame as ever.
But does that mean they don't matter? Or, in a sport of intensely fine margins, are they the biggest of all the small things?
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Of all the scandals that FIFA have made for themselves around this World Cup, the ticket one might be the hardest to shake.
But it’s part of a trend of cultural events being taken over by/staged for the corporate class. On the commodification of experience:
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"If you don't want it, I know a guy in America who'll take it."
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Are Arsenal bottling the league?
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Javier Zanetti, Edgar Davids in wraparound shades, imperial-phase Francesco Totti. Operazione Nostalgia is a window back to Serie A’s legends era
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