Simon Kuper Quotes
It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.

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Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

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Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

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Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.

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Взять, например, «Манчестер Юнайтед» — наверняка тысячи фанатов по всему миру и знать не знают, что Манчестер — это такой город в Англии.

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The theory of the “wisdom of crowds” says that if you aggregate many different opinions from a diverse group of people, you are much more likely to arrive at the best opinion than if you just listen to one specialist.

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The wisdom of crowds fails when the components of the crowd are not diverse enough.

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The club is not a business. It's a populist democracy.

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