“There are moments in football that are exclusively poetic: these are the moments of the “goal.” Each goal is always an invention, it is always a subversion of the code: each goal is an inevitability, shock, awe, irreversibility. Just like the word poetic. The top scorer of the league is always the best poet of… Keep Reading
Paddy Moore was born in 1909 in Ballybough Co. Dublin, just north of the traditional socio-geographic dividing line of Ireland’s capital, the River Liffey. Although those lines of class division have blurred a little in recent years, the general rule is if you are born north of the river you are working class and if… Keep Reading
What do you get out of football and sport in general? Apart from the obvious emotional tube-ride we enjoy with the masses, the thrills and the spills, running the gamut of agonisingly unjust defeats and those invigorating derby day victories, that semi-sadomasochistic pleasure and pain that is indiscriminately doled out by the football gods during… Keep Reading
Betsafe’s Battle of Manchester brings together legends and ambassadors for a pre-Manchester Derby clash Paul Dickov, Nicky Weaver, Trevor Sinclair, Richard Dunne, Les ‘Chappy’ Chapman & Steven McInerney from Blue Moon Rising star for the City side David May, Anthony Crolla, Clayton Blackmore, Nick Culkin, Mark Cueto & Adam McKola from Full Time Devils represent… Keep Reading
As football fans, I’d imagine you will all be familiar with that feeling you get when you watch a young player for the first time who seems destined for great things – it’s a weird feeling of inarguable self-certainty. You just know. It’s not a feeling you get all that often, but after just 45… Keep Reading
As you may know, I previously wrote an article exploring womenʼs roles in top level sport which pulled no punches. It went down a treat in some camps and not so well in others. I have been referred to as sexist and anti-feminist ever since. This may or may not be entirely true but in… Keep Reading
In March of this year the world of Tennis was rocked with news that 5 time grand slam champion and former World Number 1 Maria Sharapova had tested positive for a banned substance. BBC tennis commentator Andrew Castle described the news as a hammer blow to the sport of tennis. Even that may be an… Keep Reading
‘A picture paints a thousand words’ is probably the most idiotic idiom every verbalised. I’m not being facetious when I say it just never made any sense to me. What’s a picture without context? Without some background information? A picture/photograph wrangles and captures a split second from time times infinity. Why restrict and condense a… Keep Reading
We’re in the middle of March, and that can only mean one thing, we’re also in the middle of Arsenal’s annual “season in crisis” patch of form. Knocked out of the FA at the weekend, on the verge of being knocked out of the Champions League at the last 16 stage yet again, and only… Keep Reading
When Irish people (and probably European people in general) think of Colombia, thoughts tend to drift towards the stereotypical. With a less than subtle nod to popular culture, cocaine and violence immediately spring to mind as do broad accents, white suits, larey shirts and good coffee. Similarly, when folk ponder upon Colombia’s association with the… Keep Reading
