How leaflets used to look: Colchester 1951
A gem from the Labour Party for the Colchester constituency in 1951 with this football themed leaflet. … Read the full post »
Read all of my posts about football (soccer, that is, rather than football of the American or Australia kind).
A gem from the Labour Party for the Colchester constituency in 1951 with this football themed leaflet. … Read the full post »
Two Japanese teams face off, wearing binoculars. Rather like watching me play football, without binoculars. … Read the full post »
Raphael Honigstein’s Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World sets out to explain how German football recovered from its (relative) failures at the 1998 World Cup and 2000 European championships. There is lots of good material in here, often well told and packed full of weird and wonderful personalities brought skilfully … Read the full post »
Michael Lewis’s account of Billy Beane’s approach is laced with basketball terminology, and so can be a struggle to follow at times if you’re not already very familiar with the sport. … Read the full post »
Under Liberal Democrat plans, football clubs would be allowed to work with their supporters to introduce standing areas. … Read the full post »
Asked in abstract, people of course say that they think arguments should be in line with the facts and the if a fact is wrong it’s reasonable to point it out. … Read the full post »
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s message of good to the England football team. … Read the full post »
For me as an occasional Arsenal fan, the sections about how rarely big money transfers pay off – and so why Arsene Wenger is very reluctant to make new signings – were particularly instructive. … Read the full post »
Unimpressed with football? Dreading having to make polite small talk during the next couple of weeks whilst colleagues at work excitedly discuss obscure Danes, who should be in the hole and why they are more knowledgeable than the ref / England manager / FA (delete to taste)? … Read the full post »
Latest news in the ongoing saga of Southampton Football Club’s attempts to ban photographers from its matches. … Read the full post »