Tamir Sorek from the University of Florida. Photo: Bernard Brzezinski
Should politics interfere in sport? That's the questions Americans have been asking as we've seen NFL players and other codes, “take a knee’ during the American national anthem in recent months. A recent study from the US said white American Football fans and black American Football fans hold very different views about the relationship between football and national pride. A sociology professor at the University of Florida, Tamir Sorek, is one of its authors.