Antonio Cassano, the rebel genius who wants to live fast and die fat - Times Online
“I spent the first 17 years of my life dirt-poor,” said Cassano, who was raised by a single mother in one of the most crime-ridden neighbourhoods in Italy and said he is certain that had it not been for football, [...]
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1 December 2008 – 3:00 pm
Hot News!
29 October 2008 – 11:31 am
Forget the elections about to be held in the Canada/Mexico area, forget the way the Dow Jones and the FTSE are chasing each other up and down like a pair of territorial squirrels who both want the same tree trunk, something really newsworthy is happening.
Argentina have apparently picked a new manager for their national football [...]
The Olympic sport I’d like to see
14 August 2008 – 10:48 am
I was thinking about whether Michael Phelps is the ‘greatest Olympian of all time’, and the relative value of medals in different events. For example, the fact that it’s even possible to enter eight events at the same Games means that Phelps has a medal-collecting advantage over, say, a boxer. And the 52 gold medals [...]
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9 July 2008 – 12:02 am
John Cameron and the History of English Football « More Than Mind Games
Fascinating essay over at MTMG about a footballer called John Cameron and the early history of English football.
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BBC - Ouch! - Features - What’s your Sign Name?
Interesting article about 'sign names' - i.e. the nicknames deaf people give [...]
Congratulations Spain
30 June 2008 – 8:05 am
A much deserved win.
Which, incidentally, means that there are now 10 countries who have won a major international football tournament since England last did it. Germany, Italy and Brazil have won 10 between them in that period.
» Winners Spain, uploaded to Flickr by mwboeckmann and used under a CC by-nc-sa licence.
Dispatches from the Uncanny Valley
18 June 2008 – 4:34 pm
I’ve just bought Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 for the Wii, and I’m thoroughly enjoying it, but it does take you into a weird parallel world. Not just because of the licensing restrictions that mean the English league is full of clubs called things like ‘Man Red’ and ‘Lancashire Athletic’, and Germany has players called ‘Fnich’ [...]
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16 June 2008 – 1:00 pm
StrangeHarvest.com::Desktop Study: The Strange World of Sports Studio Design
'The BBCs Euro 2008 studio is a glass box overlooking the rooftops of Vienna… But it's the table that's of primary interest. It displays the unusual usual tropes of that tiny genre of design: football tournament desk design.'
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Manchester United 1-0 Barcelona
29 April 2008 – 8:47 pm
… and Paul Scholes scores. It’s just like the old days.
Really, though, I know we’re all supposed to get terribly excited by the prospect of all-English semifinals and finals, but I don’t watch the Champion’s League for the chance to see Chelsea play Liverpool at Stamford Bridge. I watch to see games like today’s: English [...]
A question.
16 March 2008 – 12:12 am
I’ve been wondering: what proportion of Premiership football matches this season have featured the players wearing black armbands?
It seems like they never take the field without them. And far as I know Britain isn’t currently experiencing a surge of extra deaths due to, say, an outbreak of the Black Death.
I know, it’s a completely harmless [...]
Uncomplicated pleasures
8 March 2008 – 8:24 pm
Watching Chelsea get knocked out of the FA Cup by Barnsley, followed by a big plate of ribs, greens and Hoppin’ John.
My version of soul food wouldn’t pass the Southern Grandmother Authenticity Test, btw, but it was pretty tasty though I do say so myself.
più alto, più rapido, più forte
6 February 2008 – 2:53 pm
Well, today the Capello era really gets started. After two months of blissfully fact-free speculation, conjecture, analysis and day-dreaming, we have to get down to the sordid reality of playing actual football.
Even after the match, it’ll be too soon to tell much really. Not that that’ll stop the pundits. Obviously they have to offer some [...]
No Euro 2008 for us, then.
22 November 2007 – 11:55 am
I had a bad feeling before the match, but I wasn’t expecting it to go quite the way it did. I was worried that playing a 4-5-1 and only needing a draw, England would defend deeper and deeper, as they so often have recently, only to be caught out by a goal too late to [...]
Mark Lawrenson: just SHUT UP already
19 May 2007 – 4:48 pm
It’s not that I want the football commentators to try and sell every game as a classic even when it clearly isn’t. I appreciate their willingness to be honest about their product. But having bloody Lawro gloomily commenting about how bad the game is every 30 seconds for the whole bloody match really doesn’t add [...]
The Italian Job by Gianluca Vialli
16 May 2007 – 11:59 am
I’ve just read The Italian Job: A journey to the heart of two footballing cultures by Gianluca Vialli, his book about the football in Italy and England. Which I would, on the whole, recommend. My full review is here.
Manchester United 7, Roma 1
10 April 2007 – 9:13 pm
That’s what you watch sport for. All the dreary 1-1 draws are justified by an evening like that. Not that a 1-1 draw can’t be entertaining, but you need the crazy, Hollywood nights from time to time as an inoculation against cynicism and boredom.
Bare-faced cheek from Sky Sports
4 April 2007 – 9:06 pm
I was watching the football this evening (and no, I haven’t done my napowrimo poem yet, and yes, that’s probably what I should be doing now instead of this post), and all the players looked rather short and squat. And changing the format setting on the TV didn’t seem to help.
I came to the conclusion [...]
there’s only one Ronaldo
22 March 2007 – 4:15 pm
For the benefit of those of you who don’t know who he is, this is Christiano Ronaldo, who is, this season, a contender for the best footballer in the world:
George Boateng, captain of Middlesbrough FC, talking about a particularly unsubtle tackle by one of his teammates on Ronaldo:
“I’m not saying Morrison wanted to spoil his [...]
thoughts on England vs Spain
8 February 2007 – 12:02 am
If Peter Crouch didn’t spend the first half hour of a game treating defenders to his best imitation of a mountaineer trying to swarm up the north face of the Eiger, he might be more likely to get decisions going in his favour later.
Shaun Wright-Phillips and Kieron Dyer have both still got the qualities that [...]
YouTube Madness
2 February 2007 – 11:54 pm
Otis Redding:
Matt Le Tissier*:
Baile Funk:
*via More Than Mind Games