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With the vacation season coming along, and the World Cup going full blast, let's take a look at the cultural implications of international football:

As a leading authority on nationalism, the Vienna-born historian Eric Hobsbawm recognised the rallying potential of the game. Speaking of his childhood in the 1920s he said that "the only thing that brought the Austrians together in those days was football." Not much has changed since then.

Now the truth comes out…

Vladimir Putin talking about the Russian police

Books by Richard Hill