Last week, The New York Times published an article about soccer. But they published it in the Fashion & Style section.
The article had some up in arms, including a writer at Deadspin, who wrote, “You just want to enjoy a perfectly fine sport, and here comes the Times‘ style section, bent on fetishizing pseudo-intellectual soccer fandom to the point where you’re forced to reconsider your choice of fellow travelers.”
So is no news good news? Perhaps in the case of The New York Times turning soccer into a trend, yes.
I thought the article was a great example of cosmopolitanism and soccer.