Since the days of Benito Mussolini, authoritarian regimes have tried to co-opt football but that, as Mickaël Correia explains, entails allowing fans a certain amount of leeway. Photograph: Damian Spellman/PA A People’s History of Football Author : Mickaël Correia, trans. Fionn Petch, ISBN-13 : 9780745346861 Publisher : Pluto Press Guideline Price : £16.99 Football fans, famously, have only two emotional registers: dewy-eyed romanticism and cynical fatalism. Sentimentally speaking, the game belongs to the people; in reality it is run by powerful moneyed interests with only a tenuous relationship to the fan base – and it feels like there isn’t a...