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Who is the greatest player to have played for your favourite team? What was your greatest moment as a fan? These and other similar questions are often asked by football supporters all over the world and so on this week's main report we ask what has been the best ever side in your favourite club's history with Damian focusing on the Spurs team from 1961-63.

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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Justin Mapp tells it like it is ahead of Saturday's game in Colorado. "We always want to score, but it's a work in progress, and we have to keep working and can't get frustrated with each other. We scored multiple goals the last two games, and that is great, but now we have a new game and have to go out and produce again.

The following passage is David Goldblatt's foreword to his incredible The Ball is Round. Although written to Americans, it basically sums up what happened today.

(I tried to embed and highlight the text from google books, but couldn't. So this will suffice for now.)

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Egypt's football fan clubs are figuring prominently in stories about the current uprising. For readers wanting to learn more about the Ultras in Egypt and their role in the uprising, here are a few links:
James M. Dorsey, "Soccer Fans Play Key Role in Egyptian Protests" (readers of this blog will not be surprised, as this is a fairly consistent topic in writing about the sport and politics).