Obviously there is a bit of a fascist presence around football but it’s not huge or structuring, which makes this sit very oddly, as if it’s running on a set of stereotyped associations: traditional working class sport, (sotto voce) and you know what they’re like, the 1980s…
Is cricket inaccessibly expensive? The cost for a father to take his son to one day Lord's:
Tickets 2x £140: £280
Saino's (strawbs, cocktail sausages etc): £25
2x lunch hamper: £110
2x Veuve Cliquot Jeroboam: £840
Carlton St hotel: £300
return train from Princes Risborough: £140