• IF I’d written about “piccaninnies”, “watermelon smiles” and women in burkas “resembling letter-boxes”, it would be impertinent to pronounce on racist behaviour in football.

“It’s hollow pomposity. This fellow finds it natural to hear cries of ‘Hurrah’ when he has broken wind.”*

*Marx to Engels (re Freiligrath), 7/6/1859 qu.
SS Prawer: Karl Marx and World Literature.

MIKE BOR
St George’s Fields, W2