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I have learned things from the game. much of my knowledge of locations in britain and europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. i have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things i cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations i share completely and uncritically.
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I Have Learned Things From The Game.

Nick Hornby
I have learned things from the game. much of my knowledge of locations in britain and europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. i have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things i cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations i share completely and uncritically.
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