Materialism is of the world view of monism which teaches that all that exists is "one self-creating, self-sufficient substance" which may be divine spirit (pantheism) or spiritless substance (materialism).
But they must be held responsible for the joyless, spiritless, hopeless shell of a club which provides a suffocating, soul-destroying backdrop to the latest humiliation picked apart by pundits.
Beside them were the spiritless creatures whose lives they had ruined, ghostly human beings, weak and ill, their clothes dirty and tattered, their faces etched with a pure hopelessness.