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God is Round: Why Football Writing Matters
Citing the examples, anecdotes & words of Coltrane, Van Gogh, Chesterton, Einstein, Mondrian, Cruyff and…
Tacoma Stars: Keeping America’s Footballing Eccentricity Alive
Football in America was fringe culture, and its recent growth has meant a loss of…
The Legacy of Chapecoense – One Year of Loss & Beginnings
One year on from that fateful night that claimed so many lives, Chapecoense have secured qualification to…
The Ballon d’Or: It’s time football stopped trying to be Hollywood
Football has long aspired to bathe in glitz, glamour and gold. Awards like the Ballon…
Lily Parr: The gun which dodged bullets to pioneer women’s football
We look into the story of Lily Parr, the woman who shook the world and…
The Cost of Pearls – The Unbelievable Tale of José Leandro Andrade
Before you arrive at the end, you must start at the beginning. For Part 1,…
The Voodoo Child – The Unbelievable Tale of José Leandro Andrade
A continuation of Football Paradise’s Evolution of the Dribble series. For Part 1, The Search…
Salvador Dali’s Favourite Footballer – Surrealista, Josep Samitier
This is a continuation of Football Paradise’s Evolution of the Dribble series. Part 1 can…
The Search for Football’s Missing Link: The Evolution of Dribbling – Part 1
This is a series on the history of English Football’s Anxieties. This is part 5.…
Vinnie Jones, the Portrait of an Antagonist: A Brief History of English Football’s Anxiety – Part 4
This is a series on the history of English Football’s Anxieties. Here’s part 1 – Masturbation and…
Magician, Stakhanovite, Stanley Matthews: A Brief History of English Football’s Anxiety – Part 3
This is a series on the history of English Football’s Anxieties. Here’s part 1 – Masturbation and…
World War, Mon Amour – A Brief History of Women’s Football
The story of women’s football has always had the theme of ‘them against the world’.…
It’s Bad Manners Being Clever: A Brief History of English Football’s Anxiety – Part 2
This is part 2 of a series on English Football’s Anxiety. Part 1 can be…
Speed of Sound: How Atlanta United’s Rise is Ushering in the Modern MLS Fan
Beginning their existence this year, Atlanta United have already captured the hearts of soccer fans…
A dash of tango in a small corner of Asia: The story of Bangladesh’s love affair with Argentina
From Diego and Batistuta to Lionel, a small country from Asia breathes La Albiceleste –…
The Football Match That Broke Yugoslavia’s Back – The Battle of Maksimir
Red Star visited Dinamo Zagreb two weeks after Yugoslavia’s communist party had lost an election…
Masturbation and Muscular Christianity: A Brief History of English Football’s Anxiety – Part 1
History of English Football – How England was bereft from having a sensual relationship with…
The Punk Rockers of Football: A Story of Pirate Flags and the Anti-Nazi St Pauli
The story of FC Sankt Pauli, the football club from Hamburg’s Reeperbahn, that has managed…
An Adventurer With Caution As His Watchword – Herbert Chapman, part 2
We continue our journey into Herbert Chapman’s life, this time looking into how he changed…