International football is ceasing to be treated as a reenactment of Europe’s horrible past. Is the age of football as a substitute for war coming to an end? "A World Cup without Germany would be like Star Wars without Darth Vader," remarked David Winner, and Germany were the perfect villain: the bad guy who killed […]
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Netherlands 1 West Germany 2, 1974 – David Winner
Homo Passiens Gallery
A selection of artwork by Matt Kenyon for Man the Footballer: Homo Passiens. Homo Passiens: Man the Football is available to order today from our online bookshop. Artist’s impression of athletic, right-sided “Man The Footballer” based on skeletal remains from 0.9 million years ago, unearthed in East Africa. The Cernes Abbas Giant as it appeared […]
Echoes In Eternity
"When Ferguson moved into management in 1974, part-time at East Stirlingshire for £40 a week, the game was much less lucrative, broadcasters usually only supplied football punditry for special events (FA Cup finals, internationals, World Cups and so forth) and the principal career options for retiring footballers were: opening a sports shop, running a pub […]
Slaggy Island
"South Bank lies three miles east of Middlesbrough. Locally they call it Slaggy Island in honour of the ring of spoil heaps that once cut it off from the outside world. It’s not as glamorous as that nickname makes it sound. South Bank was the home of the Smith’s Dock shipyard, of Bolckow Vaughan and […]
Quiz! Bundesliga All-Time Top Goalscorers
7 minutes, 25 players Bundesliga matchday one is this Friday, with the champions, Bayern Munich, hosting David Wagner’s Schalke in Bavaria. In this quiz, we’re asking for the top 25 goalscorers of all-time in Germany’s top flight. Let us know your score on Twitter. Try these quizzes too: Can you name every team Robert Lewandowski […]
Why The Away Goals Rule Must Be Abolished
“Europe seemed much bigger in the early 1970s. Iberia was governed by fascist dictators. There were two Germanys, West and East. With no rolling news, Blackberries nor Twitter, a plausible sit-com episode could be written based on the Likely Lads avoiding knowledge of the result of an England match for half a day. Europe’s airlines […]
South Of The River
"South London, to fans who came to the game with the advent of the Premier League, probably seems rather similar to, say, East Anglia – not a hotbed, but with one or two clubs who occasionally spend a season or two among the elite before sinking back to their natural level." It was not always […]
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