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Archive for March, 2007

To the women of Iran

For the last few weeks, I have been reading (and re-reading) a book written by Franklin Foer entitled “How Soccer explains the World (an unlikely theory of globalisation)”. Foer is a senior editor at the New Republic and contributing editor at New York magazine, and has penned a fascinating account of how the “world […]

Another eternal return

And so, after a brief lay off of about 30 years or so, I’m playing club football again. I figured you can’t talk about it forever, and after all, transferral has its limits. Knowledge is a relational thing, and if I’m going to have an opinion on football matters, I should at least be reminded […]

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