PSG vs Lens: When a French Football Match Becomes a Global Power Play
Paris, late February. While diplomats three Métro stops away at the UNESCO palace wring manicured hands over “rules-based order,” the Parc des Princes hosts its own quarterly exercise in soft-power brinkmanship: PSG versus Lens, a fixture that reliably turns a provincial coal town into a temporary enemy state and reminds the rest of us that…