The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.

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2/2: The Eurovision Song Contest - Campy, Chaotic and Completely Serious

2/2: The Eurovision Song Contest - Campy, Chaotic and Completely Serious13 May54 min
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Eurovision has many things that soccer does - underdogs, spectacular collapses, bloc loyalties, political scores settled through performance, and a continent watching the same spectacle at the same time. And this year, the Eurovision Song Contest, a live-for-TV music contest with continent-wide public voting, is happening in Vienna, this coming weekend. Why there? Austria won it last year. Here is a primer of, a short debate about, and a quiz about the Song Contest. And an outlook on how this...