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.
