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Football seems to have forgotten about fun: the World Sevens has brought it back | Tom Garry
Tom Garry·The Guardian World News·2026-06-03 13:50:49·1 view
We all have a tendency to take the game far too seriously – this seven-a-side tournament provided the perfect antidote
As much as it is tempting to romanticise about Bill Shankly’s most famous quote, he was wrong. Football is not more serious than life and death, and over the years far too many of us seem to have taken the former Liverpool manager’s words a little too literally and stopped being able to enjoy football for its primary purpose: fun.
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Football seems to have forgotten about fun: the World Sevens has brought it back | Tom Garry
We all have a tendency to take the game far too seriously – this seven-a-side tournament provided the perfect antidote As much as it is tempting to romanticise about Bill Shankly’s most famous quote, he was wrong. Football is not more serious than life and death, and over the years far too many of us seem to have taken the former Liverpool manager’s words a little too literally and stopped being able to enjoy football for its primary purpose: fun. Whether it is clubs writing letters of
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