Posts Tagged ‘Football’
 

 

Romance & History in Exchange for the Swank of Modern Football: The Intriguing Debate Surrounding West Ham’s Stadium Move

It is now official. The deal for West Ham to own the 2012 London Olympic stadium has been completed (subject to an ambitious legal challenge from disgruntled Leyton Orient chairman Barry Hearn). On first looks, there seems to b...
by Jack Gregory
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Nineteen Eighty Four Four Two: The Very Average State of Football Journalism

Sometimes, you will read a really interesting article. An article that unashamedly grabs your attention, tells you things you didn’t know, and is written with genuine panache. Then, when you turn your newspaper to the back pa...
by Jack Gregory
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Frankly, Boys Aren’t Reading Enough

It was revealed earlier this week that Chelsea and England midfielder Frank Lampard has signed a deal with publishers Little Brown, and is set to write a series of children’s books. The midfielder breaks the stereotypical, a...
by Urban Times
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Football: The New Force Behind Social Inclusion

The UK is one of the world’s largest economies. However, it is also a country where the divide between the rich and the poor is growing greater by the day, and it is the poor who are suffering the most. In 1990, the UK’s ri...
by Kieron Blake
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What We Can Learn From the Sneijder Situation

Wesley Sneijder has seen his reputation and value diminish spectacularly in recent times. One of the stars of the last World Cup, his steady downfall at the age of 28 is largely due to his standoff with Inter Milan; a mix of fi...
by Mustafa Sharif
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Out of Africa: The Evolution of Football in China

Six months after leading Chelsea to their first Champions League triumph, Didier Drogba returned to London last month to present a number of his teammates with commemorative rings to honour that fateful night in Bavaria. In t...
by Patrick Bourke
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The Murky Depths of Football

Last weekend’s Manchester derby proved to be a truly majestic game of football, epitomising everything that English football stands for. A game full of twists and turns, passion, commitment and most importantly, overridin...
by Alex Roberts
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UEFA announces ‘Euro for Europe’ to be held in 2020

UEFA (the Union of European Football Associations) has announced that the 2020 European Championships will, for the first time, be hosted across the continent. The decision to go for a one-off ‘Euro for Europe’ to celebrate...
by Matthew Barnes
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No Easy Game to Play: Nationalist Incentives from War to the Olympics

  Nation-states have recently come under attack, as several scholars have argued that a global world requires novel forms of governance that will eventually make old nations a relic of the past. For the time being, however...
by Lorenzo Piccoli
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