How football brings out our best — and worst

Football has a great capacity to bring out good things in people, and also some of the worst. In the last week we’ve seen both.

For the good, just look at the worldwide solidarity in the wake of the plane crash that wiped out the Chapecoense football team, killing 71 of the 77 on board.

Tragedy naturally evokes sympathy, especially with an almost unknown club on the verge of glory.