What do we think of when we think of football

Football is one of the most popular sports in the world. What is the secret that makes so many people watch football and support it so passionately? Is it something that speaks to class, race or gender? Is it our national or regional identity? Philosopher Simon Critchley, who studies popular phenomena, tries to explain this phenomenon as well. In particular, this book, as the author himself says, is not so much about the philosophy of football, but about the fact that football can give us an idea of ​​philosophy. As a football fan, he talks about bright and dark heroes: Zidane and Cruyff, Clough and Revie, Shankly and Klopp. In company with them, however, Marx and Nietzsche, Sartre and Heidegger appear, which encourages us to look at the game from an extremely interesting perspective, more precisely, from many perspectives at once.