What Joe and the Democrats can learn from Roy and Crystal Palace

A football saga offers guarded reason for optimism.

The hugely successful and widely beloved 1960s and 1970s Liverpool Football Club manager Bill Shankly is frequently quoted as having said,

"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death… I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.”¹

To an extent, he was right. Football – or your own preferred sport, but, y’know, it’s football …