Issue 10: Future Issue

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The theme of this milestone issue is “The Future”. Two years have passed since the COVID-19 pandemic began. We continue to go about our lives wearing masks, while the world is rapidly changing. When you consider everything that has happened in the past two years, it is difficult to predict what the future holds, even just a year from now. In this issue, however, we try to look at the future of football.

SHUKYU Magazine has always focused on the cultural and social aspects of football. Each issue has been based on a different theme, but looking back I realise that SHUKYU has always sought contributions from people looking a little further into the future. It comes as no surprise that we have chosen the future as the theme of this issue.

In this issue we talk to people who believe in the power and potential of football within society, despite the astronomical rise in transfer fees and plans for a European super league — changes that symbolise modern capitalism.

As Arsene Wenger once said, "Pass should be future, not past, not present." It is up to us, the people with the ball, to decide how to pass it from the past to the future. The future is in our hands.