Kuper’s segment on the Celtic v. Rangers rivalry is among the best in the book. It really shows the intensity and history behind the rivalry. This section alone defines the passion that soccer fans around the world have. However, the best section of the book was the add on chapter for the American version. This chapter, entitled Global Game, Global Jihad, details the impact that the game of soccer has on developing Middle Eastern countries in conjunction with radical Islam. It isn’t a controversial chapter, just a statement of facts that helps details how soccer has turned so political in that part of the world.
It’s popularly believed that the reason so many black players represent predominantly white countries is that blacks are inherently more athletically gifted than whites. Indeed, Blanc voiced just that notion at the infamous meeting. He said, “You have the feeling that we are producing really only one prototype of player: big, strong, fast… and who are the big, strong, fast players? The blacks. That’s the way it is. That’s the way things are today.”
Lilian Thuram, a black man of Caribbean origin who played alongside Blanc in that impregnable defense of 1998, thinks that here his old friend was guilty at least of “unconscious racism” and promoting “racial stereotypes.” If you say that blacks are stronger and faster than whites, Thuram argues, you open the door to them saying that whites are more intelligent than blacks.
In fact, health researchers say the question of whether any people of African origin have genetic sporting advantages is still unresolved. Clearly not all Africans have these advantages. The genetic variety inside Africa is immense. The British geneticist Steve Jones observed that people in one Kenyan village may have more of their genes in common with Danes than with people in the next Kenyan village. At the last World Cup, the South Africans, say, would have been out-muscled by any European team. In any case, if it were true that blacks in general had better sporting genes than whites, then Africa would surely do better at sport
库珀的部分凯尔特诉别动队竞争是其中最好的书。它真的表明，强度和历史背后的竞争。这一节定义的激情，世界各地的球迷。然而，最好的书节被添加上章为美国版。这一章，题为“全球游戏，全球圣战，细节影响，足球比赛已发展中东国家在与激进的伊斯兰教。它不是一个有争议的一章，只是陈述事实，细节如何变成这样的政治在这世界的一部分。
人们普遍认为，之所以有这么多黑人球员代表白人为主的国家是黑人比白人更运动本质上是天才。事实上，布兰科表示只是概念在臭名昭著的会议。他说，“你有感觉，我们生产的真的只有一个原型：大，强大的，快速的…谁是大的，强有力的，快速的球员？黑色的。就是这么回事。这就是现在的事情。”
丽莲，图拉姆，黑人的加勒比血统谁曾与白朗，坚不可摧的防御1998，认为在这里，他的老朋友有罪至少“意识的歧视”和“种族成见。”如果你说，黑人比白人更强大和速度更快，图拉姆认为，你打开门，他们说白人比黑人更智能。
事实上，健康的研究人员说，这个问题是否有非洲血统的人有遗传的体育优势仍然没有得到解决。显然不是所有非洲人有这些优点。遗传多样性在非洲是巨大的。英国遗传学家史提夫·琼斯指出，人在一个肯尼亚村庄可能有更多的共同的基因与丹麦人与人在接下来的肯尼亚村。在上届世界杯上，南非，说，已out-muscled任何欧洲球队。在任何情况下，如果这是真的，黑人一般有更好的运动基因比白人，非洲一定会做的更好的运动
