Tweet In the autumn of 2011 Philosophy Football met Honey Thalijeh, then captain of the Palestine Women’s Football team. Inspired by what she told us about what football meant to her country we promised that when Euro 2013 opened in Israel we would be in Palestine. From 5-18 June Israel hosts the second biggest international team [...]
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Kick, Run & Think books
Apr 24th, 2013 by Mark Perryman.Tweet Mark Perryman from Philosophy Football offers a selection of the best football, running and sports politics books of the quarter In England there’s no sportswriter quite like Dave Zirin. He writes about sport from the Left with such passion and style that readers will never spot the join. An American, the bias is unsurprisingly [...]
Di Canio in Swindon, the Dog that Didn’t Bark
Apr 5th, 2013 by Andy Newman.Tweet Mark Haddon’s book The Curious Incident Of the Dog In the Night-time was set in Swindon, referencing the famous dictum by Sherlock Holmes, in the story The Silver Blaze. Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” Holmes: “To the curious incident of the [...]
Paulo Di Canio: We Must Prevent Fascism Becoming Acceptible
Apr 2nd, 2013 by Andy Newman.Tweet I was delighted at the response of David Miliband in resigning as vice chair of Sunderland after the appointment of open fascist Paulo di Canio as manager. Since then, Durham NUM have asked for their banner to be returned, up until now proudly displayed at the Stadium of Light: Davey Hopper, General Secretary of [...]
Can you be a fascist, Paolo Di Canio, without being a racist?
Apr 2nd, 2013 by Carl Packman.Tweet A lot has been made of Sunderland Football Club’s new manager Paolo Di Canio’s previous comments and actions, that have been expressly fascist in nature. The accusations, that Di Canio now call “ridiculous and pathetic”, include giving roman salutes to A.S. Roma fans (who are known to have a wide Jewish following), a recorded [...]
They thought it was all over
Mar 19th, 2013 by Mark Perryman.Tweet As England prepare for a World Cup Qualifier double-header Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman reviews the decline and fall of a Football Nation Never mind the debate over the dodgy third goal in ‘66, was it or wasn’t it over the line. The most famous piece of commentary in English footballing history ‘some people are [...]
England should play a game of low expectations
Feb 6th, 2013 by Mark Perryman.Tweet Tonight England vs Brazil at Wembley marks the start of the FA’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations. Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman argues that it is the perfect time to lower our expectations of England’s chances. England vs Brazil, friendly or no friendly, is a tasty international fixture to mark the start of the Football Association’s 150th [...]
The FA: a century and a half not so sweet
Jan 1st, 2013 by Mark Perryman.Tweet Throughout 2013 the Football Association will be celebrating its 150th anniversary. Philosophy Football’s MARK PERRYMAN reflects on the organisation’s failings. 26th October 1863. The great and the good of nineteenth century English Football gathered at the Freemasons’ Arms in Covent Garden to codify their sport. The rest is history, as will be frequently pointed [...]
A mountain of bike books for Christmas
Nov 27th, 2012 by Mark Perryman.Tweet Philosophy Football’s MARK PERRYMAN declares Cycling ‘Sport of the Year’ and chooses his favourite books from 2012 inspired by life on two wheels Never mind the BBC hyped-up hoopla of ‘Sports Personality of the Year’, for most successful British sport of 2012 surely nothing comes close to cycling. An extraordinary first, and second, places [...]
A formation for the Christmas tree: 2012′s best football books
Nov 16th, 2012 by Mark Perryman.Tweet Philosophy Football’s MARK PERRYMAN reveals the football books any fan would welcome as an addition to their bookshelf this Christmas Twenty years on from the 1992 publication of Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch it might be assumed that there wouldn’t be any subjects football-wise remaining to write a half-decent book about. It is true there’s [...]
