"There is a need, now more than ever, for a sense of responsibility. that’s true for readers and commenters, but it’s especially true for writers and editors. It matters less in football coverage than elsewhere, but standards are important whatever the field. Truth has never been a virtue in such need of being upheld." In […]
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Championship Football: Brentford Look Capable of Making Amends for Last Season’s Near Miss
After 116 years at Griffin Park, Brentford will begin the 2020-21 season at their new 17,250 capacity Brentford Community Stadium home. It wasn’t quite the fairytale ending Brentford had hoped for at Griffin Park, with the club narrowly missing out on promotion that would have seen them plying their trade in the top-flight of English […]
Setting Sun
“Leyton Orient Football Club is not my life, but it has been the only constant in it. I realise that every major event, every stage, every shifting moment, is connected in some way to this daft, infuriating football team. “It defined my childhood, inspired my education, gave me my sense of humour, united my family. […]
The Grim Result Of Modern Economics
"Every year, it feels, [the European Super League] comes closer. If access to it starts to be determined on such criteria as “historical merit”, it becomes a de facto franchise system and the beautiful sense of organic growth and one enormous interconnected pyramid that has sustained European football for so long will be lost." In […]
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Building The Dream, James Corbett
The following article first appeared in Issue 16, released in March 2016. As the political wrangling continues over Qatar’s World Cup, what’s the reality on the ground? At the edge of an empty man-made lagoon near to the shore of the Arabian Gulf, I count skyscrapers looming from the dust. The road, lined on one […]
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The Sacred Eyeball, Scott Oliver
The following article first appeared in Issue 27, released in December 2017. Fans are vital to the modern game but tribalism too often means they fail fully to realise their power The signs are reasonably unambiguous: “MODERN FOOTBALL IS RUBBISH”. Thumbing through an increasingly thick catalogue of examples, past Manchester City’s boutique fan-experience innovation, the Tunnel […]