“It saddens me that the game has sold its soul to television. What we see now is a televisual game, and it cannot bear the weight of its publicity.”

—  Stuart Hall

Telegraph.co.uk http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2317798/Stuart-Hall-enjoying-time-of-his-life.html (28 July 2007).

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