Today is Easter Sunday the day which which we are told Jesus Christ was resurrected and walked among his disciples once more telling them how to proceed without him. However how many people look to Easter now as a celebration of the Christian faith or merely as a long weekend, those precious extra few days off work. Today an estimated 6.3 million people will have attended church however this is number is in decline and when you compare this to the number of people watching or attending football matches it is quite staggering. For many their private lives are now more important to them than any measure of spiritual understanding and well being. The thought of spending some of their sacred free time listening to someone recite scripture, to some, is almost laughable. Football has always been joked about as a religion but to many it really is. A Sunday morning won’t find them perched precariously on a pue, they will be sat on their sofa watching Match of the Day having probably already attended the game they are now watching the previous day. Is this wrong? Why is it this same fan will be still look to the sky and pray when their team are in desperate need of a goal or penalty save? Is this wrong? Why is it that on occasions such as the murder of Rhys Jones football clubs are turned into mourning grounds. It isn’t due to a sense of religious understanding it’s due to the feeling of community of belonging and of being one, but perhaps that is truly what religion is after all.