Simon Kuper People Quotations

People are enormously disappointed because if there's one country that really expected to be going and has a high opinion of its own qualities, it's Holland.

In the United States, there's a strong taboo against racism; in England it's only happened in the past 15 years. In Spain and Eastern Europe, there is none of this revulsion among most people. There are few people of color, so a black player on the field is a new thing. In that sense, soccer is seen by racists as the vanguard of the world outside sweeping into town.