This Sunday, 7 September 2014, sees the return of 3sided football, originally conceived by artist Asger Jorn and now taking firm hold in the London scene. This year, however, things are stepping up a notch with the launch of the … Continue reading
A report by Philosophy Football goalkeeper Kadeem Simmonds appears in today’s Morning Star. You can read it here. There will be more words and photos from this fantastic event to follow – keep checking in!
3sided football, the brainchild of the Danish Situationist Asger Jorn, has grown rapidly over the last couple of years, with tournaments in matches as far apart as Colombia, Spain, Turkey, Lithuania and the United Kingdom. In Spain, Philosophy Football played … Continue reading
With the current attempts of the ‘Bitter Together’ campaign to scare and frighten the Scottish public into remaining a part of the UK resulting in a spectacular reversal of fortune and a significant narrowing of the gap in the opinion … Continue reading
In 2006 David Peace wrote the outstanding The Damned Utd, which fictionalised Brian Clough’s calamitous 44-day reign at Leeds United. Now he brings his unique writing style to the legendary Bill Shankly in Red or Dead. There are already many … Continue reading
The controversy which has engulfed Paolo Di Canio, the new Sunderland manager, has taken many Italians by surprise. In extreme cases, some have even attempted to turn the accusation of ‘intolerance’ on to his critics. His views are his private … Continue reading
10. Everton FC – ‘Here We Go’ (1985) / Nottingham Forest and Paper Lace – ‘We Got The Whole World In Our Hands’ (1979) This is proper old school. You wouldn’t catch a Premiership footballer doing anything like this: appearing … Continue reading
We’re very pleased to introduce a new blogger, ‘Oscar’, who finds himself in many troubled places around the world. This is, we hope, the first in an occasional series of his reflections on life in some of these places, and … Continue reading
As Michael Mansfield and former Lord Chancellor Charlie Falconer help the families of the victims of the Hillsborough tragedy search for justice, it appears likely that the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, will make a request for the original inquest verdict … Continue reading
We’re pleased to welcome a new author to our blog. ‘Engels’ will be blogging about politics, football, and the politics of football (and perhaps the kickabout nature of contemporary party politics) in a regular series. His first article, on the … Continue reading