Online followers—often teens—are invited to private chat groups where they are exposed to and encouraged to share extremist and violent anti-Western jihadist propaganda.
When English cricket was declared the latest bastion of ‘institutional racism,’ I found it hard to see this as anything other than a propaganda vehicle for the grievance industry.
The comparisons between football and war may seem strained to some. But the parallels exist because sport is a direct inheritance from war, and is pregnant with values such as loyalty and emotions like fear.
All sport originates in acts of violence. This, which might seem to condemn it from the start, is actually its redeeming characteristic: sport was, and remains, the best means for ordering that particular human impulse.
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