Publication: Spiked Online

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

A proud Chelsea?unsupporter? till I die

Years ago, long before Google came to the salvation of lazy football writers who couldnât be bothered with microfiche searches, the term âunsupportâ was coined in the football magazine, When Saturday Comes.It meant, as the name suggests, the exact opposite ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Spiked Online ]

Entities: John Terry, Hatred, Paul Canoville

First Reported May 22 2012 - Updated May 22 2012 - 1 Documents

Don?t let these killjoys kill the Olympic spirit

Whether it is the latest terror-attack warning from the authorities or a cynical, masses-averse jibe about bread and circuses from a smug columnist, there has been no shortage of fearmongering and killjoyism in the run-up to this summerâs Olympic Games. ... [ Published May 22 2012 by Spiked Online ]

Entities: London Olympics 2012, London, Infrastructure, Pandemic

First Reported May 11 2012 - Updated May 11 2012 - 1 Documents

UEFA

It?s time to knock out the Europa League

It’s time to knock out the Europa LeagueWatching Athletic Bilbao and their bonkers coach may make Thursdays fun, but the Europa League is still pointless.‘We’ve fallen a bit in love with these Athletic Bilbao players’, exclaimed Five commentator Dave ... [ Published May 11 2012 by Spiked Online ]

Entities: UEFA Europa League, UEFA, UEFA Champions League

First Reported May 04 2012 - Updated May 04 2012 - 1 Documents

Roy Hodgson

Roy Hodgson: theright man for England

Well we didnât see that coming, did we? The fans wanted Harry. The media wanted Harry. The players wanted Harry. He might have been the bookieâs favourite and the peopleâs choice. But Harry didnât even get an interview. To everyoneâs disbelief, Roy Hodgson ... [ Published May 04 2012 by Spiked Online ]

Entities: Roy Hodgson, Brian Clough, England, Harry Redknapp

First Reported May 02 2012 - Updated May 02 2012 - 1 Documents

Dwain Chambers

And the gold for defiance goes to?

For sports fans and liberty lovers alike, itâs not been a bad week at all. And for that, thanks must go in part to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Paris. On Monday, it ruled unlawful the British Olympic Associationâs bylaw prohibiting athletes ... [ Published May 02 2012 by Spiked Online ]

Entities: Dwain Chambers, Doping, London Olympics 2012, Performance Enhancing Drugs, Sebastian Coe

First Reported Apr 26 2012 - Updated Apr 27 2012 - 1 Documents

Lionel Messi

Barcelona are crying out for Andy Carroll

What an incredible game football is. One team, giants of European football, pound a team of more limited but tireless players for 90 minutes, firing shots in from every angle, hitting the woodwork umpteen times, only to lose thanks to a breakaway goal. ... [ Published Apr 26 2012 by Spiked Online ]

Entities: Andy Carroll, Lionel Messi, Terry Wogan

First Reported Apr 20 2012 - Updated Apr 20 2012 - 1 Documents

Geoff Hurst

Controversy makes the football go round

My wife thinks I take football too seriously. She says I spend too much time watching, discussing, reading about and playing football. And then thereâs my increasing devotion to Twitter. âYou spend more time on your phone than you do talking to meâ, she ... [ Published Apr 20 2012 by Spiked Online ]

Entities: FA Cup, Geoff Hurst, Twitter, Gordon Taylor

First Reported Apr 19 2012 - Updated Apr 20 2012 - 1 Documents

The imperial narcissism of the F1 boycotters

The way some politicians and commentators are talking, you would think that the fate of Bahrain hinged on whether or not this weekendâs Formula One (F1) grand prix goes ahead. Cancel it, and Bahrainâs repressive monarchs, the Al Khalifa family, will have ... [ Published Apr 19 2012 by Spiked Online ]

Entities: Boycott, Bahrain, Mark Webber, Sanctions

First Reported Apr 05 2012 - Updated Apr 05 2012 - 1 Documents

Football's three priorities: goals, goals, goals

Football’s three priorities: goals, goals, goalsHaving a player who knows how to stick chances away can be a panacea for even the most hopeless team. Ask Arsenal.Rob LyonsTenuous sports column / religious feast segue coming up. If you don’t want to read ... [ Published Apr 05 2012 by Spiked Online ]

Entities: Andy Carroll, Jordan Henderson, Stewart Downing, Kenny Dalglish, Barclays Premier League

First Reported Mar 23 2012 - Updated Mar 23 2012 - 1 Documents

Football: less than a matter of life and death

The universal reaction of football fans to Fabrice Muamba collapsing on the pitch, having suffered a cardiac arrest, was a mixture of horror and compassion. Spurs fans applauded the Bolton player and chanted his name. I was among the many spectators at ... [ Published Mar 23 2012 by Spiked Online ]

Entities: Patrick Barclay, Fabrice Muamba, Daniel Taylor

First Reported Mar 17 2012 - Updated Mar 17 2012 - 1 Documents

Time to pick Premier League pockets?

Last week, Lord William Nimmo Smith, who chaired an inquiry into the financial affairs of Rangers Football Club, ruled that chairman Craig Whyte was not a 'fit and proper person' to own a football club. No shit, Sherlock. Rangers went into administration ... [ Published Mar 17 2012 by Spiked Online ]

Entities: Mark Goldberg, Simon Jordan, Takeover, George Reynolds, Barclays Premier League

First Reported Mar 09 2012 - Updated Mar 09 2012 - 1 Documents

Why football needs dictators in the dugout

As Chelsea dispatch their sixth manager in five years, Englandâs rudderless ship sails blindly towards Euro 2012 and Mitt Romney limps towards the finish line as the least-worst Republican out of a bad bunch, I am moved to ask: Where have all the leaders ... [ Published Mar 09 2012 by Spiked Online ]

Entities: Dugout, Dictator, Brian Clough

Quotes

...His takeover of the club was warmly welcomed. "I think it will bring back a level of stability to the club that was necessary to go forward on the footballing side" , said then-manager Walter Smith...

Time to pick Premier League pockets? [Spiked Online - Mar 17 2012]

...You have to enjoy doing the art and not think, "Will I win?â.â Watching those old YouTube clips of Socrates is great fun. But Iâd take issue with his canonisation. Sure, he was one cool dude but was he the âDa Vinci of Brazilian soccerâ, as one journalist described him? I see him more as the Arthur Scargill of football: a man who fought modern battles using outdated tactics. Let me explain. Scargill made his name in 1972 when, as the firebrand leader of the Yorkshire miners, he led the mass picket which shut down the Saltley Gate coking plant in Birmingham. Twelve years later, as president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Scargill took on Margaret Thatcher and lost. His attempt to recreate Saltley Gate at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire, failed miserably. Scargillâs anachronistic faith in the sanctity of the picket line was no match for the Tories who had had been preparing for a showdown with the miners since the 1974 Ridley Report, which proposed a raft of measures such as a large mobile force of riot police to counter mass picketing."

Socrates: the Arthur Scargill of world football [Spiked Online - Dec 09 2011]

Poynter was also keen to draw attention to the sometime contradiction between the commercial and social imperatives at workwork in the legacy. âWhat "the legacyâ disguises and what it legitimates in the context of city building is a kind of revalorisation of urban areas, as economists would call it, a re-development of Brownfield sites that it is assumed will become increasingly valuable over time, a removal of planning controls and a re-development of a city in the image that the business elites would like to see.â This makes sense in terms of trying to attract commercial investment. â[But] the consequence of this is that the government makes all sorts of promises about the social transformation of east London: from enhancing life expectancies to improving the lives of people in the East End. But when you actually begin looking at the legacy as it is unfolding, it looks like it is going to achieve exactly the opposite.â"

Olympics: forget the legacy and enjoy the spectacle [Spiked Online - Nov 24 2011]

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A proud Chelsea?unsupporter? till I die [ Published May 24 2012 by Spiked Online ]
Don?t let these killjoys kill the Olympic spirit [ Published May 22 2012 by Spiked Online ]
It?s time to knock out the Europa League [ Published May 11 2012 by Spiked Online ]
Roy Hodgson: theright man for England [ Published May 04 2012 by Spiked Online ]
And the gold for defiance goes to? [ Published May 02 2012 by Spiked Online ]
Barcelona are crying out for Andy Carroll [ Published Apr 26 2012 by Spiked Online ]
Controversy makes the football go round [ Published Apr 20 2012 by Spiked Online ]
The imperial narcissism of the F1 boycotters [ Published Apr 19 2012 by Spiked Online ]
Football's three priorities: goals, goals, goals [ Published Apr 05 2012 by Spiked Online ]
Football: less than a matter of life and death [ Published Mar 23 2012 by Spiked Online ]
Time to pick Premier League pockets? [ Published Mar 17 2012 by Spiked Online ]
Why football needs dictators in the dugout [ Published Mar 09 2012 by Spiked Online ]
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Kick moralism out of football [ Published Feb 11 2012 by Spiked Online ]
Football?s thin-skinned culture of complaint [ Published Feb 04 2012 by Spiked Online ]
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