Independent Reading Prompt 14 Chapter 3

"This treatment confirms an old aphorism, a bit strong but still truthful: a philo-Semite is and anti-Semite who loves Jews." Pg.84

Chapter 3 is entitled How Soccer Explains The Jewish Question. The author opens the chapter discussing Jewish athletes in the history of Europe especially Jewish soccer teams. I consider excerpt from above as a key quote because it sums up what the author feels about European's views on Jews as he clearly demonstrates through soccer. The book's main focus is how soccer explains the world. On the topic of Jewish people in Europe there is still a great deal of discrimination, not so much blatant, but very evident in soccer. In perticular one club, MTK Hungaria, founded by Jewish businessmen in 1888, is the target of innumerable Jewish slurs where ever they play.