Around 15 years ago a British soccer journalist called Will Buckley published a novel called “TheMan Who Hated Football.” The protagonist was, needless to say, also a soccer journalist, but one who’d fallen out of love with the game because it was taking itself too seriously. It wasbasically Buckley’s farewell letter to the sport. While the novel may have had its merits (I never read it), the book was not a success — people who loved soccer didn’t want to read a book aboutsomeone who hated it. People who hated soccer didn’t want to either.
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