Given that there are educated football fans, why would they go to
Tottenham Hotspur to watch football ,or indeed what attracts any fan to any
particular team ? Partly to become one of a mass, or is that a contradiction
?
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> MediaWatch Issue 10
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> There can hardly be an educated football fan in the country who does
> not know that A J Ayer seldom missed a match at White Hart Lane, home of
> Tottenham Hotspur. [...] The argument goes that if a philosopher likes
> football, then liking football makes you a philosopher: a strange use to
> which the name of a professor of logic should be put.
> Theodore Dalrymple, the New Statesman 22/11/1999
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> http://www.philosophers.co.uk/current/media10.htm
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