Karl Marx once described religion as, “the opium of the masses.” Now in the 21st century, the majority of the planet has found a new drug to lift their minds from the banality of everyday life – football. There is no other entity that can hope to match football in terms of popularity. People across the vast spread of Earth may have different skin colours, languages, income tax bands, genders or sexual orientations, but what can unite virtually anyone is a shared love of the beautiful game. Yet this popularity…
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