How sport explains Thatcher’s Britain
The commerce, scandal and violence of sport in the 1980s was a reflection of a ruthlessly individualist society.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
The commerce, scandal and violence of sport in the 1980s was a reflection of a ruthlessly individualist society.
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