David Owen: Putting football into perspective

The anniversary of Hiroshima fell this week, as it usually does, in the middle of football’s silly season.

Millions for a few weeks consecrate every spare minute to fretting over what coloured shirt a dozen or so millionaires will be wearing next month; or to reading significance into meaningless matches.

Yet 68 years ago this happened.

It’s progress, I suppose.

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