The foreword for Man the Footballer: Homo Passiens by Irvine Welsh. Now I get it! Homo sapiens is a recently arrived imposter in the evolution of the genus Homo – a mountebank, a charlatan, a confidence trickster, a fraud, a fraudster, a rogue, a villain, a scoundrel, a quack! All that academic stuff about consciousness, […]
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Bring Your Dinner, Ewan Flynn
John Sitton, the Rwandan genocide and the fabled Leyton Orient documentary Tuesday, 7 February 1995, half-time: Leyton Orient 0 Blackpool 1. Home Dressing Room. “What did I say to you about good players wanting to be good players all the time? Do you not know how profound that is? Have you not examined the fucking […]
Sunderland 4 Chelsea 1, 1999 – Jeff Brown
Jeff Brown is this week’s guest on Greatest Games as he joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller to look back on Sunderland’s unexpected 4-1 win against Chelsea at the Stadium of Light. Heading into the 1999-00 campaign, Gianluca Vialli’s Chelsea were looking to mount a genuine title challenge – asserted after an opening day 4-0 […]
Greatest Games: Sunderland 4 Chelsea 1, 1999
LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE ON YOUR PODCAST PLATFORM OF CHOICE OR YOUTUBE Jeff Brown is this week’s guest on Greatest Games as he joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller to look back on Sunderland’s unexpected 4-1 win against Chelsea at the Stadium of Light. Heading into the 1999-00 campaign, Gianluca Vialli’s Chelsea were looking to mount […]
Blizzard-41 Sampler
Location, Location, Location
"Colchester United, Northampton Town, Stoke City, Swansea City: outsiders have to take a detour to visit the town. If you’re looking for the stadium and come across something interesting, you’ve got lost. "It seems as if no club in England these days can build a stadium without the muscle of a major supermarket chain who […]
Workers Rights, Tony Richardson
The following article first appeared in Issue 39, released in December 2020. The story of the Nepalese labourers building Qatar’s World Cup stadiums. Tribhuvan Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal. November 2018. Football is the icebreaker. It always is. Within seconds of sitting down in departures my neighbour and I have exchanged the basics; who we love, who we […]
Introducing Man the Footballer: Homo Passiens
The introductory chapter for Man the Footballer: Homo Passiens, available to order today from our online bookshop. A spectre is haunting the university corridors, the libraries, the classrooms and lecture theatres, the journals, the laboratories, the field stations, the professors, the academics, and students of evolutionary biology. A spectre that challenges and revises, and yet […]
The Guide To Making Sure You Have The Perfect Day Out At The Footie
If you love the beautiful game, then you’ll want to make sure you get to as many professional matches as you can. If you love playing the game, then that comes first, but there’s not many better feelings out there than watching the team you love put a ball into the onion bag. The atmosphere […]
Alternate Title
"The fact that he was asked to change the title only adds to the effect. He had picked up the phrase from the broadcast media. So how could it be inappropriate for broadcast media? What kind of place was this? In such circumstances, what could be a better alternate title than “Alternate Title”? Micky Dolenz […]