The Ethics of Soccer Sponsorship
Feeling queasy at the increased commercialisation of football is an experience common to us all, but a definite ‘if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em’ mood has prevailed in recent years. Indeed, sponsorship...
View ArticleRevisiting the Price of Football
[T]here comes a point in every football fan’s life when the “sod it, I’m not going moment” occurs. For some Manchester City fans, contributing £62 to Arsenal’s coffers was a step too far. For me,...
View ArticleTTU Go Predicting: a Club-by-Club Premier League Preview 2014-5
[O]ur divisional previews of a year ago were so well received that we decided to go one better and offer a full set for 2014-5 even if bloggers enjoy the luxury of not being obliged to cover...
View ArticleDilemmas of Football Ownership: History and the Need for Change
[F]or the second of our posts exploring the theme of football ownership, we are pleased to welcome Jon Keen, a long-standing supporter of Reading Football Club and founding member of STAR (the...
View ArticleGender and Football: Belles, Balls and Bureaucracy
It’s 2012. I am standing on my old school field, in roughly the same spot where sixteen years earlier, during Year 8 PE, I face-planted the cinder-running track attempting the hurdles. I am one of a...
View ArticleMy Second Team: Swansea City
For the fifth post in our burgeoning ‘My Second Team’ series, Alex Quayle compares the regard he holds for Manchester City with his new affection for Swansea City in the wake of two meetings between...
View ArticleMental Health Awareness Week: Mental Health and Elite Football
Last Wednesday, with this article already taking shape, it was revealed that Everton winger Aaron Lennon had been detained by police under the Mental Health Act. The Merseyside club subsequently...
View ArticleBook Review: The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Richard Foster Published by Ockley Books 2017 It was entirely remiss of us not to have reviewed Richard Foster’s The Agony and the Ecstasy on its initial release in 2015,...
View ArticleBook Review: There To Be Shot At: The Autobiography of Tony Coton
There To Be Shot At by Tony Coton Published by De Coubertin Books 2017, £12.80 Cards on the table before we start: I’m not coming at this from an unbiased perspective. Perhaps this is no surprise; Tony...
View ArticleBook Review: On the Brink: A Journey through English Football’s North West
On the Brink by Simon Hughes Published by de Coubertin Books 2017, £18.99 At first sight, the idea of a book devoted to a particular region of England may seem a little random and arbitrary – after...
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