Sometimes I manage to convince myself that football no longer holds any real element of surprise. That everything has been done, or at least that the sparkle has faded in some way and been replaced by cynicism. And at the final moment, just when all seems to be lost, it saves itself. The story begins. Brazil. The land of blue, green and gold. As in the flag, as in the colours of the national football team, as in the azure Atlantic Ocean, the vast Amazon rainforest and the sandy stretch of the Copacabana. We associate with it maybe the vibrancy…
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The 72 interviews: Sky Sports presenter David Jones
When you turn on your television and tune in for some live Football League coverage, the chances are that you will see Sky Sports presenter David Jones beaming back at you. David was kind enough to devote some time to talk, both about his career and the Football League in general, with The Seventy Two… One of the reasons I set up this site is that I get the sense there is an increasing degree of unity between supporters of Football League clubs, especially given the recent financial problems suffered by many of us. Do you think there is a…
Of Bluebirds and Swans: life in two South Wales press boxes
With Cardiff and Swansea both flying high in the Championship, it has been a while since the media glare was fixed so intently on the two clubs. So The Seventy Two caught up with Chris Wathan, the Football Correspondent for Media Wales, to discover his thoughts on life in the press boxes of South Wales. What team do you support and what are your first memories of football? Strangely for a South Wales lad, it’s Tottenham. Football in our area wasn’t exactly doing its bit to attract local kids when the glamour of the First Division and Panini sticker books…
The 72 Interview #3: Marlon Beresford
It’s 200 miles from Burnley to Luton, a journey to which you can add a further 100 miles if you go via Middlesbrough. And a further 1,508 miles if you trace over the route of Marlon Beresford’s football career in its entirety, from his birthplace of Lincoln to his current home of Harpenden in Hertfordshire.
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NLW #2: Unity for Football in Scarborough
It is now over three years since the dissolution of Scarborough Football Club. In that summer of 2007, a new club was born in their place. But Scarborough Athletic were joined in the North Yorkshire seaside resort a year later by a second team, Scarborough Town. The existence of two clubs, where previously there was one, has created a certain degree of acrimony. There seems little merit in telling the story again when the excellent Two Hundred Percent blog has already done such a sterling job of it. Instead, the Seventy Two spoke to Rob Bernard, a Scarborough Athletic fan…
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