ABSTRACT
What has made sport so uniquely effective a medium for inculcating national feelings, at all events for males, is the ease with which even the least political or public individuals can identify with the nation as symbolized by young persons excelling at what practically every man wants, or at one time in life had wanted, to be good at. ‘The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.’ The individual, even the one who only cheers, becomes a symbol of his nation himself.[ 1 ]
