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    Sporting success and failure mirroring society?

    By Will last year, mid-June, 2 Comments »

    I’m about to sit down and watch Nation in Film, that BBC programme of West Indies’ tour in 1976. And the following teaser was uttered by Darcus Howe, one of the contributors.

    I don’t think West Indian cricket ever had such an intense reflection of what was taking place in society

    Viv Richards is bowled

    Is the same true of West Indies now? Does the success of a national sporting team reflect the successes or failures, depressions and moods of society? If it did back then (Howe says that Tony Greig’s “grovelling” comment was, in West Indians’ view, distinctly racist: white versus black), the effect is certainly less so nowadays.

    I like stuff like this. Thoughts welcome.

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