The beautiful — and corrupt — game

My good friend and MPR colleague, Hart Van Denburg, announced on Twitter over the weekend that he’s giving up trying to explain the beautiful game to Americans.

I've given up trying to explain/promote #thebeautifulgame to unbelievers. The world has left them behind anyway. http://t.co/m36NBYasY2

— Hart Van Denburg (@hartupnorth) June 1, 2014

This is the most exciting thing that happens at a soccer game. It happened Friday night and they’re still talking about it.

Advantage: Europe. I guess.

In other news, the New York Times has exposed a syndicate that European police investigators says fixed hundreds of professional soccer matches around the world.

About the blogger

Bob Collins

bcollins@mpr.org • @newscut

Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.