Keyword: football

Football's Dangerous Masculinity

Picture: Sir Alex Ferguson talks to David Beckham by Joscarfas/Flickr. Ian Sinclair - As the UK’s unofficial national sport and with the season running for nine months a year it often seems like it’s impossible to escape from football. It’s the default conversation topic from the office to the barbershop; the latest Premier League happenings round off television news broadcasts and large portions of our newspapers are dedicated to reporting and discussing every minute detail of ‘the beautiful game’. This cultural supremacy has been demonstrated by...