It’s Not War, Or Death, Or Famine
The latest Ken Early Political Podcast is up! But as it was posted late on Friday, we also delivered a bonus mini-pod to keep everyone ticking over. Click on the player above to play.
The events in Manchester last Monday seemed to a lot of people to emphasise once again the futility of sport – the pointlessness of caring about a victory for a football team in a European final in light of what had gone on in that city.
The truth of course is somewhat more complicated, and more nuanced than that. Ken wrote in the Irish Times this week –
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His words echoed an excerpt from one of our favourite ever episodes of the Second Captains podcast, from the Summer of 2014, when we talked to Michael Parkinson – an excerpt we often repeat on the show, where he stated that sport “is not war, or death, or famine – it’s not that at all. It’s the opposite of that. It’s to persuade us of a life outside of that… that’s why sport’s important.”
We reproduce the whole episode here for your enjoyment – where we talk to Parkinson about his own sporting career, his start writing football reports for his local newspaper in Barnsley, football in the 60s and what he thinks of it’s current iteration. Have a great weekend everyone.
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