ALEX LEONARD explains why football still belongs to the people despite the billionaire owners and the rampant commercialisation…

AGUERO0000000000 000000000000000Sergio Aguero scores his title-winner for Manchester CityTWO years after England won the World Cup, sports journalist Arthur Hopcraft published a book entitled The Football Man: People and Passions in Soccer. It is a detailed study of the game as he knew it in the late ’60s. Over 200 pages are dedicated to examining everything from players to press to his visualisation of football’s future.Yet the book&r...