Illustrated Essay: Tattoos in Professional Football
You have probably noticed that professional footballers these days all sport many, many tattoos. This is because they are young, they are in the public eye, they have a lot...
Category "Illustration"
The Friday Picture: Bonus Paid Content
The football blogosphere’s latest big topic is the issue of making certain content available to subscribers only. It’s a bit of a hot potato. But it’s one which Dotmund fears...
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Ormondroyd’s Virtual Match Reports…. Now In High Definition!
In the late nineties, Fulham supporter Ormondroyd started following his exploits around the country by producing an illustrated match report for each game. As Fulham were at the lower reaches...
Mungo S04E01
Some of you may have been worried about the fate of Mungo McCrackas, currently the world’s third-best Scottish football player. You’ll be pleased to hear that he rides again thanks...
Thursday picture: Puzzle Time!
With the good name of British journalism currently hanging in the balance, by which I mean “everyone is realising that it’s as wantonly venal as we always suspected”, Twohundredpercent leaps...
Thursday Picture: Struck By Lightning
Dotmund has always been a fan of football manager’s excuses, and you don’t get any better excuses than from the coaches of national sides from countries with oppressive regimes. Even...
Thursday picture: Finding Mourinhos
Portuguese football’s baffling alacrity at finding young, charismatic and highly skilled coaches continues to baffle everyone in England, where Sam Allardyce remains a credible candidate for the role of national...
Thursday picture: Women’s World Cup VI
On the 26th June, the sixth Women’s World Cup kicks off in Germany. It is twenty years since the tournament started, during which time the women’s game has come on...
Stanley Matthews: World Saviour
It’s a question we at Twohundredpercent barely ever ask because it’s demonstrably so stupid, but – can football save the world? Although it’s not the sort of question we’d ask,...
Thursday Picture: Manchester United’s Old Guard
It’s been an unusual season, but one which nevertheless has had a familiar outcome. Manchester United continue to sweep all before them in the English game, and no referee or...
Friday Picture: I Got Stripes
Tomorrow, as you probably know, is the FA Cup Final between Manchester City and Stoke City. Editorial discretion prevents Dotmund from saying who he will be supporting. However, historical facts...
Friday picture: Vitruvian Man City
If the reason we all love sport is (as is often suggested) because of its unpredictability, then a lot of people must be in the same position as Dotmund and...
Friday essay: Contextualising Rooneygate
Dotmund has two mottos that he lives by. The first of them pertains largely to pork pies and needn’t detain us any further here. The second is that there’s an...
The Friday Essay: Crows
With the game up in arms about what John Terry did with his pants off several years ago and how this affects his ability to play Association Football, you’d probably...
Friday Essay: Elephants
Today, a return of Dotmund‘s usually-terrible Illustrated Friday Essay. Today, he’s picked on a really controversial and topical subject: teams with elephants on their badges. Because, and I quote, “I...
Friday portrait: A player who definitely exists
For reasons too wretchedly convoluted to go into here, the normally sane Brighton-supporting Dotmund has come to regard Manchester City as something of a second team. Consequently, Manchester derby day...
Tuesday portrait: Richard Keys and his fallen comrade
Dotmund has always managed to keep his passion for Richard Keys and Andy Gray well under control, ever since the former posed the what-he-presumably-thought-was-rhetorical “[would we really swap what we...
Friday picture: Footballing tennis dads
This week’s Picture That Dotmund Did is a double whammy of art and LEARNING. As we are now in the middle of the Australian Open Tennis, your correspondent (who likes...
Friday picture: Blackburn’s brave new world
Your correspondent got himself all excited this week when he read an internet rumour (it must be true!) that none other than Diego Maradona was on his was to the...