Political Footballers XI: Striker Cristiano Lucarelli

In recent weeks football has demonstrated once again that is has now come a tremendously long way from its beginnings as a public school method of transforming the weakling children of the British upper classes into gentlemen ready for the trials of Empire.  Even its second and more influential incarnation as a pastime and escape from…

The fan experience: Liverpool v Napoli 4/11/2010

This was my second game back at Anfield since I came back to the UK.  I had asked my uncle which of the two games he would rather go to, he chose Napoli.  I hadn’t been for nearly 5 years and although I knew I was due to go to the Napoli game with my uncle,…