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| Friday 14 June 2013 |
There’s something about Jose
Hated in Spain, loathed in Italy, but adored in Britain – what is it about Mourinho that makes him our special one?
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| Friday 7 June 2013 |
No thank you for the matchday music
The fashion for blaring out pop songs is killing the real source of stadium atmosphere: the noise of the fans.
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| Thursday 30 May 2013 |
The worst insult in football: ‘plastic’
Abusing the other team’s fans for being fake is fun. But the demand for football authenticity is a mug’s game.
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| Friday 24 May 2013 |
Palace, get over
your promophobia
Some Palace fans are quaking at the thought of promotion to the Premier League. They should grow a pair.
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| Friday 10 May 2013 |
Palace v Brighton: it’s more than a game
With the teams’ ferocious rivalry, the Championship playoff semi-final will be tastier than a family bucket of KFC.
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| Friday 3 May 2013 |
Football is no place
for the thin-skinned
Britain's football terraces are an ironic and offensive foul-mouthed carnival. If you don't like it, well, tough.
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| Thursday 25 April 2013 |
What should we do about Suárez? Laugh.
The Liverpool striker’s bonkers bite had football’s moralists foaming at the mouth, yet it was classic entertainment.
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| Friday 19 April 2013 |
Is this the return of hooliganism? No.
The fighting involving Millwall and Newcastle fans last weekend was notable because it's now so unusual.
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| Friday 12 April 2013 |
Di Canio: let’s salute freedom of conscience
So what if the new Sunderland manager has a weird attitude to fascism? It’s his ability to do his job that counts.
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| Friday 22 March 2013 |
England: still waiting for the Chosen One
The travails of would-be messiahs Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney raise awkward questions for English football.
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| Friday 15 March 2013 |
It’s official: Aussie sport has gone soft
The once all-conquering Aussie cricket team has dropped four players for not handing in their homework. WTF?
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| Friday 8 March 2013 |
Football fans, let’s burst this authoritarian ‘bubble’
Why is there so little liberal outrage over the ‘bubbling’ of fans by police, when it assaults both justice and freedom of movement?
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| Thursday 28 February 2013 |
Oscar Pistorius: when good metaphors turn bad
It is bad for sport when we turn athletic stars either into role models for society or symbols of evil.
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| Friday 22 February 2013 |
Let’s order that
taxi for Wenger
Wenger had plenty time to turn Arsenal’s fortunes around and put an end to Gooner whinging. Now, time’s up.
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| Friday 8 February 2013 |
They call him Cashley, but he don't care
Ashley Cole is accused of being a greedy, Cheryl-cheating swine. But, to his credit, he has never courted popularity.
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| Friday 1 February 2013 |
Better than man bites dog? Player kicks ballboy
Your grandchildren will one day ask you: where were you when Chelsea’s Eden Hazard kicked Charlie Morgan?
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| Thursday 24 January 2013 |
Colin Murray and the sad decline of MOTD
The trouble with the BBC's football flagship is not the presenters, but the insight-lite pundits it has on.
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| Friday 18 January 2013 |
£62 ticket? Welcome to football’s free market
Top Premier League clubs may be ripping off fans on ticket prices, but there’ll always be punters willing to pay.
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| Friday 11 January 2013 |
The ‘magic of the cup’ is just an illusion
Even Championship teams - and their supporters - are more interested in joining the big boys, not just beating them.
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| Thursday 20 December 2012 |
2012: the summer the moaning stopped
In an astonishing year for British sport, the country has finally put aside its favourite pastime of all: grumbling.
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