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Can football and Politics exist without reference to each other?  

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Can football and Politics exist without reference to each other? Many times we have heard the phrase that a nation is an imagined political community'. In fact the boundaries everyone knows exist between nations, are obviously virtual boundaries. What makes a nation a real nation? One can say that the strong feeling of communion is mainly responsible for this. Many countries suffer forms of racism. For example, the distinction there is between people in the Northern part of Italy and those in the south is renowned. The leader of an Italian political party called ' Lega Nord', Unmberto Bossi has been long been preaching the split up of Italy into two. Today, this man is in the government of the newly elected Silvio Berlusconi, central right wing government. Although Bossi had to change his previous dictum in, order to form alliance with the rest of the central right- coalition, many people,...

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