Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football explores what Monday’s announcement of the England Euro 2016 squad tells us about modern Englishness I was six at the time of England winning the World Cup in ’66. Despite it remaining somewhat of an obsession of mine – to declare an interest I’ve just edited the collection 1966 and […]
Posts Tagged ‘England football team’
The symbolic politics of England football: an imagined community of eleven people
May 15th, 2016 by Mark Perryman.
They thought it was all over
Mar 19th, 2013 by Mark Perryman.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 on […]
