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It’s not uncommon these days, walking down a
street in Bombay, to see football shirts everywhere. The
dirt-cheap knockoffs are made of the sort of polyester that dries quickly in the monsoons and keeps you very warm in winters, which has formed ...
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Yrsa Roca Fannberg’s quixotic blog, art versus sport
is more than a Barça blog - it is
what the title promises, a site pulled in both those directions - art and sport - at once. I went down to Barcelona partly to meet Ysra , and to look more ...
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This Sunday, in a city at the centre
of a large slice of the world’s footballing history,
two sides will come together for one of the most legendary fixtures in the calendar. Both have been champions of their continent, both have provided ...
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A sold-out Soldier Field in Chicago saw Mexico
take on the United States in the CONCACAF Gold
Cup final. 60,000 showed up, with perhaps 50,000 of them coming from Chicago’s million-strong Hispanic population. (more…)
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In the global bazaar of contemporary football, in
which a top-flight team is apt to have a
Paraguayan striker, twin Hungarian left-backs, and a goalkeeper who was downloaded directly from the Internet (“JENS LEHMANN: Avg user rating: 3.2 stars. ...
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It was their second home game, but the
first time there existed in the stadium that entity
which really makes being at home meaningful: away support in numbers. It was May 2007, and Toronto FC welcomed over 200 Chicago Fire fans who had made the ...
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It began with a bang, back in 2004.
When Carlos Tevez moved from Boca Juniors to Corinthians
for a Brazilian-record $18m, their new owner MSI’s frontman Kia Joorabchian promised it hailed a new era for the club and even for Brazilian football ...
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It’s the second time in a row and
the third time in a decade that Egypt have
won the African Nations Cup — yet to aficionados of football in the Northern Hemisphere, it still came as a something of a shock. Most of the Egyptians still ...
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Here come the Austin Aztex — the newest
United Soccer Leagues team, who will play in the
First Division, itself one rung below Major League Soccer in the American soccer pyramid. As Americans are too busy buying Premier League teams, ...
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Note: Like many of you, I’ve really enjoyed
Jennifer’s and Vanda’s posts about football songs over the
past couple of weeks, and I thought I’d add my own contribution with a look at the history of one of the strangest ...
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It might be another trophyless season for Arsene
Wenger’s Arsenal, but Arsenal Ladies collected their second of
the season earlier today in the Women’s F.A. Cup Final in front of 24,582 fans. Amazingly, as the Guardian reports , ...
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Editor’s note: It’s not every day a Wisla
Krakow supporter writes to Pitch Invasion reporting of a
burgeoning fans’ protest in Poland that all started with a perceived injustice done to ultras of their bitter rivals, Lech Poznan. ...
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I’d simply like to juxtapose a couple of
recent pieces of commentary about football today. Eric Hobsbawm,
left-wing historian: Neither the local nor the national identification is what defines the economy of football today. What defines ...
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You may have heard Fergie’s rant about the
fans at Old Trafford for the 1-0 win over
Birmingham on New Year’s Day — “That was the quietest I have heard the crowd, it was like a funeral,” Ferguson said, “The ...
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The owner of Newcastle United, the eccentric billionaire
Mike Ashley, is famous for taking his obsession with
privacy to extraordinary lengths. He’s thought to live somewhere in Herefordshire, in a large mansion protected by an elaborate security ...
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“Let’s go for a little walk,” is Havant
& Waterlooville’s terrace victory tune, as your editor discovered
when they played Lewes recently in a Conference South clash. Our resident non-league expert, Ian King, thinks ...
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I remember playing Championship Manager — that greatest
of geeky football manager games — in the early
1990s, and the key to building a long-term dynasty was to sign Nii Lamptey from Anderlecht. Lamptey was the Ghanaian of whom Pele ...
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Editor’s note: David Warner writes on football -
meaning any game that involves a foot and a
ball - at Dave’s Football Blog . So I spent part of my Friday night hanging out in the balcony of a sports bar in Cary, North Carolina, with a ...
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Scalpers, ticket touts, call them what you will,
they’re the scourge of true fans everywhere. Toronto supporters
have been monitoring closely the activities of scalpers ahead of their game with LA Galaxy this weekend on Craigslist, the ...
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