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In the beginning, there is a field, a ball, some rudimentary goalposts, and some people who love to play football. By starting here, and drawing
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I wrote a book. It was about some things that happened. As books tend to be. I never imagined the fuss it would cause. The
Book review: How to Run a Football Club
Martin Cloake
November 27, 2020
In the beginning, there is a field, a ball, some rudimentary goalposts, and some people who love to play football. By starting here, and drawing
Book review: St Pauli: Another Football is Possible
Martin Cloake
October 22, 2020
Less overlapping full-backs, catenaccio and gegenpresse, more punk rock, autonomia and Gramscian theory, this is no ordinary football book. Which is the only way an
Frank’s café: Twelve years sprinkled with stardust
Martin Cloake
August 14, 2020
In his sweeping account of football in Britain, The Game of Our Lives, David Goldblatt describes ‘a thick web of values, rituals, histories and identities’.
Book review: The Authorised Biography of Bobby Buckle – Only a boy, only an idea
Martin Cloake
August 5, 2020
There’s so much in this fascinating short book to appeal not only to followers of Tottenham Hotspur but to people who really want to understand
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Martin Cloake
July 25, 2020
W C L D N – Glen Wilson It takes a deft touch and an eye for detail to evoke a sense of place. Glen
Carnival: A visual celebration of Manchester football fans in the 1970s
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June 10, 2020
Loon pants and bar scarves, feather cuts and Oxford bags, Doc Martens and butcher’s coats – and badges. Lots of badges. A hitherto undiscovered set
COVID-19: Where does the beautiful game go from here?
Martin Cloake
March 30, 2020
All the norms have changed. The COVID-19 pandemic is the kind of all-encompassing event we used to read about in the history books or watch
Book review: Paul Brown’s ‘The Ruhleben Football Association’
Martin Cloake
March 4, 2020
The Ruhleben Football Association: How Steve Bloomer’s Footballers Survived A First World War Concentration Camp Paul Brown (Goal Post Books) It’s becoming increasingly rare
Steve Perryman: A Spur Forever
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The highest praise Steve Perryman gives is to describe something as “properâ€. It means doing something not only in the best way, but the right
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