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Supporting Your Football Team as a Quasi-Religious Experience

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November 2019

I’ve often wondered why it is that tens of thousands of people will attend a top-class football match to support their team whereas, here in Britain at least, maybe only a hundred people or so will attend a Church Service.

What are the psychological and spiritual needs the football match is meeting for its ‘disciples’ which is proving to be a greater attraction for them than attending the local Church?

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