Match Of The Past: Peterborough United
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Category "Football Culture"
What Not To Wear 2012/13: Dotmund Reviews The Premier League Kits For The New Season
Oh, is it that time of the year already? The football clubs of the Premier League are making their preparations for the start of the new football season and this...
The Torpor (And Importance) Of Pre-Season Friendlies
The concept of the “close season” is becoming a rapidly fading memory. This summer has seen the European Championships pass seamlessly into the first round of friendly matches which will...
Time To Put Co-Commentators Out To Pasture
In the excellent football anthology “My Favourite Year,” the novelist and biographer DJ Taylor describes an emergency public meeting held after a boardroom putsch did for the previous chairman Sir...
What Not To Wear, European Special – The Kits Of Euro 2012
Football kits are very much in the news in recent days, since Cardiff City’s decision to switch from their traditional blue jerseys to a red shirt depicting Owain Glyndwr sat...
Ripping Up Traditions, The Cardiff City Way
Considering that they are making a pact with the devil, it is perhaps appropriate that Cardiff City will be playing in red from the start of next season. It was...
On Mortality And Football
The culture of association football is sometimes best regarded as a blank canvas onto which we can project just about any value system. Over the years, it has come to...
Was The Brotherhood Of Fans A Figment Of My Imagination After All?
Matt Johnson is a friendly fellow with, as you will shortly find out, awesome social skills. Lately, however, he has found himself wondering whether the football supporters that he approaches and...
The Decline Of Match Of The Day
Viewers of the BBC’s flagship football programme Match Of The Day were treated to a somewhat extraordinary sight last weekend when presenter Gary Lineker launched into a somewhat bizarre impersonation...
30 Years Ago Today: Remembering Football On The ZX Spectrum
Sometimes, a piece of technology comes along that not only comes to be regarded as the zeitgeist for the era from whence it came, but also as something which as...
A Bird’s Eye View: The BBC Tackles Sexism In Football
The wry announcement beforehand ‘so *is* there sexism in football?’ wasn’t a great start was it? Neither was scheduling it for 10.45pm, tucked away after the lottery draw. Okay, so...