Football and the working class

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is

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like notoriously so

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in love with football as opposed to

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other nations

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oh across all about the working class

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and bread and circuses isn't it really

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yeah uh

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it started off as poor man's game right

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and you you know

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a lot of the football clubs are related

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to work

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yeah milwaukee's dockers west ham

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dockers

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either side of the river fierce rival

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between the two teams all the locals go

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and support them because there's not a

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lot else to do and then sort of tenants

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it all began in 1898 or whatever

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it's all going to do with the industrial

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revolution yeah or the development of

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modern society i love your answers

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[Laughter]

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celtic rangers catholic protestant two

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sides of the city i absolutely hate each

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other what does football then mean to

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you is there some sort of spiritual

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meaning or is there like a

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it's almost like a romance because you

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went there with your dad um no it's just

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i just enjoyed the game really yeah um

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yeah and uh i i just sort of

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when i grew up at the school in well

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when i went to school in brighton

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it was the 80s so most people supported

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liverpool and not brighton

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but um yeah i just support my local team

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and do you play football um no you

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used to