It's obscene, Syed argues, that many of the top jobs in this country are based on privilege rather than merit. It's obscene that much of the world's population are born into hardship. But saying it's obscene for a football player to be earning a lot of money, working in the most fiercely meritocratic environment imaginable? That's just prejudice, he says, and it deserves to be challenged.
Pointing
out that entry costs to a career in football are almost non-existent
and the opportunities broad, Syed will visit players and managers such
as Claudio Ranieri and Joey Barton to make the case that the joy of
sport is in its transparency, and that football more than any other
sector holds a torch up to the covert networks, cosy alliances and
hidden hand-ups that characterise other industries.
Alongside
fellow journalist Alyson Rudd and tennis player Janko Tipsarevic, Syed
aims to take an axe to one of the holiest totems of consensual opinion.
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