When I wrote a recent post entitled 8 Rules of World Cup ‘Fight Club,' I encouraged soccer
fans to rise up, begin talking the World Cup up to non-believers and to stand firm against the
sports fans who laugh and joke at the sport we love.
My "call to arms" was met with a mixed response.
This summer Nike will be sending one lucky competition winner to South Africa together with
Tinchy Stryder and Anton Ferdinand.
Who the hell is Tinchy Stryder? Why is Anton Ferdinand of all the people the face of Nike
Football during South Africa 2010?
It doesn't really matter.
In an extraordinary article in the Daily Mirror yesterday, Oliver Holt put forward a
call to arms to all football supporters and offered an impassioned defence of
those that are protesting against the way that our game is being mismanaged at the moment. Last
Friday the Daily Mail, of all people, ran an article on FC United of Manchester
that came close to being a eulogy and was at the same time a stinging attack on the Glazer's
management of Manchester United.
Big Story
Yesterday, we noted that the avalanche of negative media stories about the Glazers' regime at Old
Trafford seemed finally to be pushing the moderate fans into the rebellious camp. Pointing to the
same piece we noted in the Daily Mirror by Oliver Holt yesterday, Ian at Two Hundred Percent
suggests there is a "sea change" in the analysis of football and money by the English media:
In an extraordinary article in the Daily Mirror yesterday, Oliver Holt put forward a call to
arms to all football supporters and offered an impassioned defence of those that are protesting
against the way that our game is being mismanaged at the moment.
IT all started with a simple headline in both Gazzetta dello Sport and Corriere dello Sport; Italy:
Remember who you are! At first glances it appeared to be a simple call to arms for the current
world champions to adopt, and excel at their country's greatest export; catenaccio. However, drill
down deeper past the obvious headline, [.
The editor of one of Liverpool's foremost fansites KopTalk recently posted a
dangerously incendiary article which overtly encourages irate supporters to 'put the frightners' on
owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett by using violent means.
Last week Duncan Oldham published the piece on the site entitled 'Get the
baseball bats and ski-masks ready!
By Oliver Sparrow and Ulysse Pasquier, writing from London and Montreal
Join Oli & Ulysse as they foretell of a Wellington versus Napoleon-esque encounter between the two
old foes of England & France at Wembley tomorrow evening (8pm GMT)
"Friends, football fans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Blanc.
