Barbosa and the Bonetti Affair
A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution. In its glorious descent from Empire to food banks, the UK might be considered a cautionary model of how a society can peck itself to the point where there seems to be not much left but feathers. In the spectral light of the current Qatarmess experiment, we look at the role football may have played in this unravelling, when everything had seemed to be going swimmingly and everyone was driving…