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Duleep Allirajah
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 |
Duleep Allirajah
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 |
Duleep Allirajah
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 |
Duleep Allirajah
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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| Tuesday 14 May 2013 |
Mick Hume
Remember, Fergie is for football, not for life
The tributes to Sir Alex Ferguson from United fans were fitting. The outburst of Fergie-mania in the media and politics was fatuous.
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| Friday 10 May 2013 |
Duleep Allirajah
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 |
Duleep Allirajah
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 2 May 2013 |
Mick Hume
My outrage over ‘racist’ Reginald D Hunter
In the ridiculous storm over the comedian’s act at the PFA awards dinner, the real joke is on football’s Zero Tolerance zealots.
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| Thursday 25 April 2013 |
Duleep Allirajah
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 |
Duleep Allirajah
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 |
Duleep Allirajah
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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| Tuesday 2 April 2013 |
Brendan O’Neill
Saving footie fans from their inner fascist
The increasingly unhinged moral crusade against racism in football is anti-prole loathing dressed up as high liberal principle.
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| Friday 22 March 2013 |
Duleep Allirajah
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 |
Duleep Allirajah
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 |
Duleep Allirajah
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 |
Duleep Allirajah
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 |
Duleep Allirajah
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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| Thursday 21 February 2013 |
Stuart Waiton
Treating football fans like vermin
A football cop’s admission that he sees his job as ‘pest control’ sheds light on the elite’s attitude to fans.
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| Wednesday 20 February 2013 |
Brendan O’Neill
Piggybacking the Pistorius tragedy
Even before the body of Reeva Steenkamp had been cremated, various moral entrepreneurs were milking her killing for political ends.
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| Friday 8 February 2013 |
Duleep Allirajah
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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