More Than A Game: The Football War
January 21st, 2010 by James BridleProfessor Anthony King's series on grudge matches and the political importance of sport, More Than A Game, is a real treat. He's previously covered the 1938 fight between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, a disaster for Nazi propaganda, and the 1956 "Blood in the Water" water polo match between Hungary and the USSR - both spellbinding accounts, and if anyone managed to grab them, please let us know.
This week he looks at the four-day "Football War" of 1959 between Honduras and El Salvador, a tragic tale which ever way you look at it, but possibly the most forceful example going of sport as an extension of national pride and passion. [MP3]