Why I watch soccer | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
The weekend beckons, so I thought I’d write something about the World Cup. At his personal blog, Jonathan Last links to a pretty apt take-down of soccer evangelists he wrote in 2002, when Americans were in the grip of another pseudo-World Cup craze.* I say ‘pseudo’ because despite its best efforts, the media-industrial complex is still unable to gin up genuine grassroots enthusiasm for American soccer. The only demographic the game appeals to consists of young, worldly, educated types –
