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The morning after Fabrice Muamba collapsed on the pitch at White Hart Lane during the FA Cup match between Tottenham Hotspur and Bolton Wanderers, we noted on the subject of...
Category "Football Culture"
Twenty Years Of Fever Pitch
It may seem odd to look at upon the anniversary of the release of a book, but Fever Pitch is no ordinary book. This year sees the twentieth anniversary of...
The Battle Lines Are Drawn At Port Vale
Since 200% last cast a jaundiced eye over Port Vale, plenty has happened but little has changed. Each week seems to have brought a new revelation of ill-behaviour from Vale’s...
‘Twas The Night Before Christmas
Christmas is nearly upon us, so it is time for us to sit back by a roaring fire, pour a glass off eggnog and enjoy the first part of a...
The Twohundredpercent Review Of 2011: A Winter Of Discontent
There is definitely something in the air. If the landscape of the football supporter has been defined by any single theme over the last two or three years, then the...
Depression & Modern Football
This morning’s news of the death of Gary Speed at just forty-two years of age is too recent and too raw to pass comment upon in any detail and this...
Football Blogging, The Media & The End Of A Depressing Year
Over the last couple of weeks or so, a debate has been being passed back and forth between football bloggers over both the present and future of what they do....
Words of Worthlessness: Football’s Perpetual White Noise
Words have become rather a hot commodity in football of late, both the spoken word from those participating in and the written word of those observing and opining on this...
Voices Of Football: James Alexander Gordon – Poetry From The Classified Results
In the twenty-first century, few things are sacred. For many football supporters, traditions are being ripped up at such a dizzying pace that it can feel impossible to keep up...
Voices Of Football: Brian Moore – The Face And Voice Of ITV
When we look back to try and trace the history of football on the television in Britain, there are several dates that stand out as being of significance. The twenty-second of August...
Subbuteo, Manchester United & Me
I just bought an A4 print of a 1992-1994 Manchester United home kit Subbuteo player. I’m not a massive fan of Subbuteo, but there’s something about the aesthetic of it...
Popplewell, Hillsborough And The Bradford Fire
“Soccer attracts more hackneyed hyperbole than most sports. We talk about “tragedy” when we mean “disappointment” and “disaster” when we mean “defeat”. When real tragedy and disaster occur, we tend...
The Sheffield Derby Throws The Sun Into A Tizz
It is a truth universally acknowledged that football matches – and in particular local derbies – can bring out the worst in people. Where, however, is the line in the...
Voices Of Football: Peter Jones – The BBC’s Voice Of Football
If football has changed almost over the last twenty or thirty years or so, one of the more comforting ways to reach back into the past is to delve into...
Voices Of Football: Barry Davies – English Football’s Renaissance Man
There has long been a strand of anti-intellectualism within football which can occasionally be somewhat distasteful, to say the least. It’s the culture that saw Graeme Le Saux labelled as...
Voices Of Football: Forty Years Of John Motson
We’re kicking off another new series on Twohundredpercent this evening, on the subject of the commentators that have brought the game to life. This evening, as an opener, here’s a...
The Premier League vs Karen Murphy: A No Score Draw
The result, in the end, was something approaching an honorable draw, which both sides of this particular argument will now likely try to claim as a victory. The Premier League...
A Culture Of Contempt, Abuse & Outrage
One of the more dispiriting cycles in which an element of English football support finds itself trapped reared its ugly head again last night. The unfailing of a flag with...
The Beauty & Glory Of Missing An Open Goal
He shoots, he scores! Or, if you happened to be Fernando Torres yesterday afternoon, you didn’t. There are several reasons why a Premier League match which had, as they say,...