Reading Rec: The FIFA Ballon d'Or: Yay For The Right Choice, Yay For Those Who Got It Wrong
A short excerpt:
“I suppose you could approach the question ‘who do you think is the best in the world?’ as an objective matter, but taking the subjective route is both more fun and more human. It is a fundamental principle of democracy that people are allowed to be objectively wrong for their own reasons, however petty or personal they might be. That’s the point of people; that’s what opens democracy up to such galling manipulation by those that can afford to spend money to change the way people think. It’s a problem in politics; it’s a godsend in football.”
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