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Why It's Very Posh To Love Football These Days

The British elite like to think of themselves as ordinary folk who’ve made good. The truth is more depressing.

<div class="paragraphs"><p>Connected like the rest of us (Source: Bloomberg)</p></div>
Connected like the rest of us (Source: Bloomberg)
In 1995, the Britpop band Pulp had a hit with “Common People.” The song satirised the elite’s longing to be ordinary, describing a love affair between the group’s frontman Jarvis Cocker and a fellow art-school student from a posh background. “You wanna live like common people. You wanna see whatever common people see, wanna sleep with common people, You wanna sleep with common people … Like me.”The British are wedded to the idea...
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