To Argentina FC London, On 30 July 1930, shortly after 4 in the afternoon, at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, the second half of the…
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Football is art, a beautiful popular art, an art of the masses. Just as the squares once filled for the commedia dell’arte, so too do the crowds flock to the football theatres in the centuries that followed. And the Dottor emerged from those stories to tell his new stories of football.
On the northern bank of the Meuse, a schoolboy carries, in a builder’s wheelbarrow, some of the materials he needs in order to build a…
Before the era of football’s commodified “gentrification” at the end of the twentieth century, the intellectual world almost refused to speak about the sport. In…
The economics of football do not only concern its commercialisation; it is the way one perceives and analyses it as a phenomenon, setting aside the…
Picture a scene: a crowd of people, of various ages, visibly drawn from different classes, composed of different genders, nationalities, and perhaps with differing levels…
On the afternoon of Wednesday, 25 November 1953, 150,000 spectators left Wembley having just witnessed one of the most influential matches in the evolution of…
The northern hemisphere is deep in summer. Football has been on hold for months. The leagues and European competitions of the past season feel like…
There is a reason why football is not merely a popular sport, but something far broader than that definition suggests. The analysis of tactics and…
The countdown is on for the 21st edition of the FIFA Club World Cup, which will take place in an entirely new format in the…
The hours of Sunday pass by, the sun has already crossed its zenith and is now on its way to the oceans, leaving the Mediterranean…