Professional controversialist Toby Young has got himself all in a froth about a pink St George Cross at England’s international this week Oh dear. Toby Young is all in a lather, a victim once more of the ‘PC brigade’. Writing in the Daily Mail, he describes the scene he seems to have witnessed at Tuesday night’s […]
Football for fans not consumers: they took the words right out of our mouth
Mar 19th, 2016 by Mark Perryman.Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football applauds Dortmund fans’ resistance to a European Superleague When the Borussia Dortmund fans held up their brilliant banner at White Hart Lane on Thursday night ‘UEFA Super League? Shut the Fuck Up’ for many fans in England too the response would be ‘you took the words right out of our […]
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Ireland always rising
Mar 16th, 2016 by Mark Perryman.For St Patrick’s Day Mark Perryman outlines the meaning of the forthcoming Easter Rising Centenary for models of Britishness St Patrick’s Day. Down the local, one of the best night outs of the year, a non-stop party drenched in all things Irish. A celebration of Ireland’s freedom, which can never be entirely separated from history […]
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Top ten sports books for the new year
Jan 3rd, 2016 by Mark Perryman.Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football picks his favourite reads for the new sporting year Football’s European Championships featuring England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic plus the Rio OIympics will undoubtedly dominate the 2016 sporting summer while cycling’s World Track Cycling Championships coming to London in March will be a domestic highlight. But then every […]
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Autumn books for the Corbyn effect
Nov 29th, 2015 by Mark Perryman.Mark Perryman from Philosophy Football provides a rundown of new books for the #jezewecan majority It would have taken a forecaster of the most extraordinary power to predict in the early days after the General Election when the Labour Right were rampant explaining Labour’s defeat on being too Left Wing that by September Jeremy Corbyn […]
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Mark Perryman reviews the best of this summer’s sports books
Jul 2nd, 2015 by Mark Perryman.English football’s Premiership, the best league in the world? The same four clubs, well give or take one perhaps, could be jotted down on a scrap of paper every August with a cast-iron guarantee they will fill the Champions League places, year in, year out. Tedium: it’s the brand value the Premiership has become past […]
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Liberté, Égalité, Vélocité
Jun 23rd, 2015 by Mark Perryman.Mark Perryman makes the case for a two-wheeled revolution Le Tour is now as much a fixture of the Great British Sporting Summer as Wimbledon strawberries and cream, a flutter on the Derby, England’s bi-annual early exit from a Euro or a World Cup and the five-day drama of an Ashes Test, weather permitting. It […]
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When it comes to FIFA the FA’s not got a leg to stand on
Jun 1st, 2015 by Mark Perryman.Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football is unconvinced by English football’s occupation of any moral high ground vs FiFA Corruption I’m incredibly disappointed with the timing of what the BBC seem to be proposing with Panorama. To do it the week before the vote – I don’t think think it’s patriotic.” So said Andy Anson, Director of […]
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A manifesto of good reads
Apr 21st, 2015 by Mark Perryman.Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football selects his reading for the 2015 General Election Campaign The much-missed indie band, well by some of us of a certain age, Sultans of Ping, had a great line in one of their barnstormer numbers “I like your manifesto, put it to the test ’tho.” We are told in all seriousness […]
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Seasonal reading: not much peace and plenty of ill-will
Dec 20th, 2014 by Mark Perryman.Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football offers his top ten books to buy to make somebody’s Christmas. Bah! Humbug? Well, not exactly but in a world of not much peace and plenty of ill-will what do you buy for those in your life clinging on to the ideal that the point is to change it? Here’s […]
