Aston Villa vs Fulham: A 1-1 Global Tragi-Comedy Sponsored by Late-Stage Capitalism
Villa Park, Birmingham – or, as the planet’s satellite dishes prefer to call it, “another Saturday data-point in the global Premier League soap opera.” Aston Villa versus Fulham sounds like a quaint Midlands postcard until you remember that the match is beamed to 188 territories, translated into 22 languages, and watched by insomniacs from Jakarta…