Falling out of love with football: a fan’s lament

There is, in many ways, nothing new in what I’m about to write. Many football fans of a certain generation have trodden the same wearied, disenchanted route. What I’m about to discuss — the corrosion of Pele’s beautiful game into a monstrous, commercial behemoth, crushing anyone in its elephantine, bloated path — has been going on for over 30 years. But as someone who was once so in love with football, it was my biggest passion in life, it’s hard to take. Hard to deal with. All I know is: the dystopian, soulless, hollow ‘product’ available to football fans across the…