Football Cities
Football Cities: Sheffield
The fifth part of our Football Cities series sees John Leigh evoke Sheffield and it’s a post permeated by a fine sense of tradition - Sheffield is a classic two club city where the fortunes of its favourites are complicatedly intertwined. John is the author of Touché, a new book from Harvard University Press that, somewhat appropriately, looks at the history of duelling in literature while he has …
Football Cities: Liverpool
The fourth part of our Football Cities series sees Jon Arnold run the rule over Liverpool and the wider Merseyside area. The fortunes of Liverpool and Everton have changed dramatically since the 1980s but the city remains a real hotbed of the global game. Jon previously penned a magisterial review of David Peace’s novel Red or Dead for us and he can be followed on twitter at @The_Arn.…
Football Cities: Bristol
After Ben Woolhead’s analysis of the Toon on Wednesday and our call for a non-league start up to challenge the artificial hegemony of MK Dons yesterday, the third post in our Football Cities series sees us very pleased to welcome a brand new writer to The Two Unfortunates. Will Jones runs the Bristol City blog, To The Left of Ross and here provides a thoughtful analysis of how soccer …
Football Cities: Milton Keynes
Haters are gonna hate and my goodness, this website has expounded a lot of column inches putting the boot into MK Dons in its six and a half years of existence.
At times, we’ve attempted to raise the level of acrimony to an art form – much as When Saturday Comes have refused to include the Dons in its annual season previews, we have declined to let people forget …
Football Cities: Newcastle upon Tyne
Perched on a hill, visible from all directions as you head into Newcastle, towering into the air in the centre of town – St James’ Park couldn’t really be much more symbolic. Its location befits its status as an iconic focal point, right at the heart of the city metaphorically and spiritually as well as literally. A compact, soulless, identikit new-build stadium on the outskirts, encircled by acres of …