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The fan and the local player - a relationship hanging by a thread (www.bbc.com)
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[–] jjpamsterdam@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

Football in England - and Britain as a whole - is a long, romantic goodbye to industrial working-class Britain.

I feel like this one sentence really sums up the feeling very well. Football in England is now no longer English football but rather global football that happens to take place in England.