Image: Mbappé – un garçon des banlieues much like Pelé. Credit: Philosophy Football/Hugh Tisdale.
Writing on the eve of Italia ’90 in the magazine Marxism Today Stan Hey had this gloomy prediction:
“The global success of football has almost certainly the seeds for the game’s corruption. There is now a momentum which seems to be beyond control. Those of us who have retained an optimism for football’s capacity for survival and ability to re-invent itself are already checking our watches. It’s starting to feel like injury time.”
