The Tower of Ryan Babel: Football, Language, and Translation
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| Pitch Invasion found this 12/22/2007 on www.runofplay.com [flag] |
This week’s Run of Play at Pitch Invasion feature looks at the problem of communication in the globalized world of contemporary football, and asks how, with such a wide range of languages in use at any given moment, players, managers, fans and the media are ever able to understand one another.
When an average club contains players with seven or eight different native languages, has a ...
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A Look Back at 2007 and Forward to 2008
Published 12/22/2007 by Thomas Dunmore at Pitch Invasion
As the Run of Play noted today, the festive period in British football is remarkably busy. Indeed, a full league programme was played on both Christmas Day and Boxing Day until the late 1950s.
Pitch Invasion is lazier over the holiday period (or rather less well paid), so I won’t be updating this site much until the new year. In the end of year spirit, we will have a reprise of some of the best photos we’ve featured over the year and there should be one or two other treats as well sprinkled randomly in.
But right now I’d like ...
