Trickle Down Theory

The Power of Soccer

John Sweeney of the BBC:

I'm an old war reporter and I owe a debt of honour to football. I can't remember how many times I've been up to my neck in shit in some awful place with a lunatic threatening to put TNT up my nose and an AK up my bum and I've said: "Manchester United" and everybody starts talking about Eric Cantona versus Wayne Rooney and then the beers are opened. I've been all round the world and seen people do terrible things to each other, but football is a beautiful thing and it converts the passions of war and tribalism into a game and at the end somebody loses but, fingers crossed, nobody dies.

A thank you to football for its part in helping along world peace. Oh, bugger, I'm sounding like Miss World now.