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Stephen Mumford is the head of Humanities School at Nottingham University, U.K. He is a philosophy teacher with a PhD. From Leeds University entitled “Dispositions and Reductionism.” His teachings and research are focused on the philosophy of science and metaphysics. Five books he wrote on these subjects earned him the title of “youngest philosophy professor” in the U.K. But this introduction should not mislead the reader. He is by no means a long-haired, bearded, spectacled, and pensive philosopher. This is maybe due to his interest in football that goes back to his childhood years. Mumford was at Bilgi University these past days delivering a discourse entitled, “Should sports people be role models.” We had a chat with Stephen Mumford about his interest in football and how his interest in this game started. “In my view it’s the greatest game that was ever invented. Certainly from the spectators’ view. The spectator wants excitement, emotion; I think football has all the right ingredients. There are intense moments of excitement when a goal is scored. And often that goal can come from nowhere. Whereas as you look at a sports like rugby, the ball has to be carried over a line, so you see a player running and you know that he’s going to score. Whereas in football a goal can be shot from 30 yards outside within a space of seconds, a goal can come from nowhere. So I think that it has this intense feeling of excitement and also the number of scores is low and that also adds to it. Because, when your team scores the first goal in a game, for all you know that could be the winning goal. This is why I think it is superior to something like basketball, for instance. Where there is a score […]