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Liverpool eked one past Sheffield United over the weekend to keep their perfect season alive. Naturally, the L-word came up. Sporting events are all just big magic tricks. Not necessarily in the ways that the athletes produce moments of impossibility, though, I suppose, one is at least awe struck as though they were seeing magic. It’s more in how the contests are presented as moments of meritocracy.
Sporting competitions, you see, are supposed to be match ups in which the better team... Читать дальше...