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Not a Matter of Life and Death?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2013

Anthony O'Hear
Anthony O'Hear*
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University of [email protected]
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‘Come on, it's not a matter of life and death’, said some Job-like comforter, following a defeat in a football match. ‘No’, replied Bill Shankly, the granite-like Scot who was manager of Liverpool FC during their days of pre-eminence, whose team had just lost, ‘it is more important than that’.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 73: Philosophy and Sport , October 2013 , pp. 65 - 77
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2013 

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References

1 by Fox, Robin Lane, in The Classical World (London, Penguin Books, 2007), 43Google Scholar

2 in ‘Sports as Fiction’, 2009, available online at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu