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What do we think about when we think about football? This topic encompasses issues of memory, history, geography, society, gender, family and tribal affiliation, national identity, and the psychology of individual groups and crowds. The values of football as a game are close to socialism, but as a business on a global scale, the sport is riddled with greed, corruption and autocracy.

Philosopher Simon Critchley analyses this explosive mix and emphasises the aesthetics, even the poetics, of football. Of course, as a football fan himself, Simon talks about football's light and dark heroes: Zidane and Cruyff, Clough and Revie, Shankly and Klopp.