ABSTRACT
Military-focused Remembrance has grown to become a year-round series of omnipresent "support the troops" events into which British citizens are incorporated by proxy and subsequently expected to dogmatically endorse. British sport and popular culture events have been shown to be key arenas in helping facilitate and reinforce this ideologically loaded remembrance. This chapter considers a number of inconsistencies relating to the sport and civil society nexus in Britain. It begins by introducing the corporate culpability paradox, the overarching inconsistency from which a further few interconnected inconsistencies flow. The corporate culpability paradox involves four key elements of militarism: ideological cause; actor; action; outcome of action. Their meanings and their relationship to one another are central to understanding this paradox and its related inconsistencies. The chapter focuses on a sporting case study that exposes the political and ideological basis permeating the overarching paradox.
