Albert Camus was once asked by his friend Charles Poncet which he preferred, football or the theatre.

Camus is said to have replied, without hesitation, Football. When Camus was asked, in the fifties, by an alumni sports magazine to write a piece about his time as goalkeeper for the Racing Universitaire Algerios (RUA) junior team his piece included the following words: After many years during which I saw many things, what I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport and learned it from football. People have read more into this statement than, perhaps, Camus wanted them to. He was referring to a kind of simple morality he wrote about in his early essays, an ethic of sticking up for your friends, of valuing courage and fair-play. Camus believed that the people of politics and religion try to confuse us with convoluted moral systems to make things appear more complicated than they really are, possibly to suit their own agendas. People may do better to look to the simple morality of the football pitch than to politicians and philosophers.

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