‘Triste come un Consiglio di fabbrica in un pomeriggio d’inverno tra un palleggio e un collettivo politico sogni dittature proletarie e coi gol richiami alla lotta di classe. Sotto le curve dei popolari, composto esulti e nelle domeniche di pioggia é più efficace il tuo pugno chiuso’ La solitudine dell’ala destra – Fernando Acitelli (quoted…
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Transfer Window Closes, Football Eats Itself
Wednesday was the final day that European football teams could buy and sell players in 2011. The transfer window closed, only to open again for some more trading in January 2012. Four months without buying anything in these consumerist times is enough to send the newspapers and Sky Sports into a frenzy. But why does…
A European Super League is inevitable
The major leagues of European football, with the exception of the striking Italians, have all got their season underway now. La Liga in Spain played its first round of games this weekend, and once again we saw the big two, Real Madrid and Barcelona, swatting their opponents aside with ease. Madrid put 6 past Real…
Against modern football? Blame liberal economics.
This is the third in a series of posts attempting to explain football through international relations theory; or international relations theory through football; or drawing tenuous links between both. Antonio Gramsci once wrote that football is the model of individualistic society. Within a game or a team there is a place for individual expression or…
In Sun and Shadow 