We kick off February with a series of posts on the interrelationship between football and gender. Tomorrow, TTU regular Susan Gardiner will analyse the progress of women’s involvement in the sport while Glen Wilson will take the temperature of women’s football itself. We shall also hear from Southampton fan Nicky Borowiec while blog co-founder Rob Langham will assess concepts of masculinity in the game, hopefully without resort to a …
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Book Review: The Evergreen in Red and White
The Evergreen in Red and White by Steven Kay
Published by 1889 Books
2014, £8.99
We have devoted some attention before on this website to a call for a ‘great football novel’, something to plug a gap which cricket and baseball in particular have filled more successfully - a solution to the presumption that football as narrative is somehow unsuited to literary treatment. To date, despite a number of …
Book Review: Falling for Football
Falling for Football edited by Adam Bushby and Rob MacDonald
Published by Ockley Books
2014, £11.99
Falling for Football is a highly significant book and not just because of the way it expertly conjures up why we fall for the sport, its tribulations and tensions, its vitality and emotion, in the first place. It is also noteworthy for the service editors Adam Bushby and Rob MacDonald have performed …
Unexpected Rivalries 8: Sheffield United and West Ham United
It is now almost seven years since Uniteds Sheffield and West Ham faced up to one another on the football pitch, the Blades gaining something of a pyrrhic victory over the Hammers with Michael Tonge described in one unmentionable daily newspaper as having turned in a performance of ‘supernova intensity’ – hard to believe given that gentleman’s typically languid style.
At that point, the match seemed little more than …
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Winch: An enjoyable read. I'm not sure they bring back any good memories, but...
