Written by dandan
Patrick Barclay, Hugh McIlvanney and Brian Glanville are all journalists getting on in years
and yet, along with a couple of younger ones in the forthright Martin Samuel and the superb Michael
Atherton, are probably the stand out sports writers of their generation.
It seems to me there are three distinct types of football writing.
First, we have the straight-up, journalistic, newspaper style match-report. There are some
intriguing variations on this approach, like Michael Cox's Zonal Marking with its intense tactical
hermeneutics, or the florid style you might sometimes find in a strange place like the Mirror,
incorporating all sorts of colourful, often mixed metaphors that end up featured in the opening
pages of When Saturday Comes.
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UPDATED: Bushman's Collection of Photo Memories from the 1967 League Cup Final
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Throughout the day, the QPR Report Messageboard has news updates,
comments and perspectives - even links to other board comments of interest re QPR matters (on and
off the field) along with football (and ONLY football) topics in general.
I think anybody who follows this blog on a regular basis will be current on what has happened in
Indonesian football this year and certainly I have no intention of rehashing the year so
far...again.
We've had the Liga Primer Indonesia start, go into a mid season break then end with a whimper,
their slogan of Change The Game quietly shunted to one side when it was realised the only change
was in the people running the game.
Sócrates is dead. It's hard to see how anyone could be surprised. It's also hard not to think
that he died because he wanted to, since Sócrates always seems to have done what he wanted to. He
smoked incessantly because it gave him pleasure; he seems to have ingested vast amounts of alcohol
for the same reason.
by Adam Bate
*A version of this article appeared as an obituary in the February 2011 issue of Calcio
Italia magazine
Some people choose to remember the 1982 World Cup for the famous Brazil team of Zico, Socrates
and Falcao. Their silky skills and attacking football certainly captured the imagination.
