How one man lifted a Nation....

In E 35 AA talks soccer in the wake of the death of Maradona and looks back at how one man....Jack Charlton, the Irish soccer manager lifted the Irish Nation in the 80s and early 90s, his own experiences of attending all the early matches and what spontaneous joy feels and looks like for a country divided by sectarianism and poverty. What soccer and local sports mean and how community is important against the thrust of global corporatism.

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