THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB
THERE is a NASA research centre in the middle of Antarctica called Concordia. It is in the coldest, darkest and most extreme environment on the planet. The outside temperature regularly falls below -80C, or -99.9C with wind chill – the extreme limit of its scale....
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THE football hipster in me had fallen out of love with the World Cup a little ever since it was expanded to a 32-team tournament for France 1998. While yes, the event was given a more symmetrical system, I felt it lost some shine. The idea of four out of the six...
Iran (I): I’d like to introduce you to someone. . . .
By Martin Fitzgerald I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO SOMEONE. His name is Ebi and he's from Iran. Ebi was born in Tehran in 1980, a year after the National Revolution and just two weeks before Iran got caught up in a war with Iraq that would last the next eight years....
Colombia (II): The Colombian Wave
By Craig Rimmer 1986. THE AZTECA. The moustache. The sombrero. Lineker. Argentina. Diego Maradona. “The Hand of God”. “The Goal of the Century”. “The Mexican Wave”. “La Ola” (The Wave), a common sight at sports stadiums across North and South America. It gained iconic...
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By Simon Hughes I WAS IN ITALY during the 1990 World Cup. I was six years old and on holiday with my parents in Sardinia, cossetted up near Alghero: far away from the fun and games. I knew I liked football a lot by then. Liverpool had won the First Division...
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THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB
THERE is a NASA research centre in the middle of Antarctica called Concordia. It is in the coldest, darkest and most extreme environment on the planet. The outside temperature regularly falls below -80C, or -99.9C with wind chill – the extreme limit of its scale....
THE WORLD CUP: IT WAS ACCEPTABLE IN THE 80s
THE football hipster in me had fallen out of love with the World Cup a little ever since it was expanded to a 32-team tournament for France 1998. While yes, the event was given a more symmetrical system, I felt it lost some shine. The idea of four out of the six...
Iran (I): I’d like to introduce you to someone. . . .
By Martin Fitzgerald I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO SOMEONE. His name is Ebi and he's from Iran. Ebi was born in Tehran in 1980, a year after the National Revolution and just two weeks before Iran got caught up in a war with Iraq that would last the next eight years....
Colombia (II): The Colombian Wave
By Craig Rimmer 1986. THE AZTECA. The moustache. The sombrero. Lineker. Argentina. Diego Maradona. “The Hand of God”. “The Goal of the Century”. “The Mexican Wave”. “La Ola” (The Wave), a common sight at sports stadiums across North and South America. It gained iconic...
Italy (I): Italian Majesty
By Simon Hughes I WAS IN ITALY during the 1990 World Cup. I was six years old and on holiday with my parents in Sardinia, cossetted up near Alghero: far away from the fun and games. I knew I liked football a lot by then. Liverpool had won the First Division...