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Football is the most popular sport on the planet partly because it’s so simple to play – but as philosopher, novelist and avid fan Stephen Mumford shows, behind the straightforward rules of the game there lurks a world of intriguing complexity. Mumford considers the intellectual basis upon which football rests, guiding readers through a number of issues at the heart of the game. How can a team be greater than the sum of its individual players? What is the essential role of chance? Should we want
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mumford, Stephen
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781509535330
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Sports, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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