James Davis
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/ 30 May 2002

Over the moon about soccer

”Let’s go and watch the soccer,” says Han, a Korean trainee Buddhist priest as he jumps down the steps of the temple and makes towards the dormitory block. The hour-long prayers session of chanting and songs has cut into the start of England’s game against South Korea, but what is half an hour of a friendly international compared with the possibility of enlightenment?