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Category Archives: Sport
Team spirit
I don’t need to mention there’s an important semi-final tonight, do I? Most of the media build-up is drawing parallels with Italia ’90, for understandable reasons, yet for someone of my generation (I was born in 1959) 1966 is still … Continue reading
Posted in Film, History, Sport, Uncategorized
Tagged Alf Ramsey, England, Jimmy Armfield, John Wayne, World Cup
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The beautiful game
Sunday afternoon at Bath Cricket Club.
The champ
In The Times, my review of Jonathan Eig’s compelling, thoroughly researched biography of Muhammad Ali. Definitely a candidate for sports book of the year. An American journalist whose previous books include a study of the black baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson, … Continue reading
Posted in Sport
Tagged boxing, George Plimpton, Jonathan Eig, Muhammad Ali, Norman Mailer
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Hats & Gunners
Arsenal fans at Highbury, 1933. (Via @TerraceImages)
Notebook
Before 1933, football had been dominated by the workers’ sports clubs, which counted 700,000 members, and by the 240,000-strong Catholic clubs. Although the German Labour Front rapidly absorbed them and the Nazis reorganized the whole structure of the football leagues, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Notebook, Sport, World War 2
Tagged football, Nazi Germany, Vienna
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Final lap of the Olympics
He appeared at the opening ceremony in Rio, so I’m assuming he won’t be in tonight’s closing show too. But who needs an excuse to play some Gilberto Gil? This is my favourite version of “Expresso 2222”, performed live with … Continue reading
Posted in Brazil, Music, Sport, Uncategorized
Tagged Gilberto Gil, Rio Olympics, Vinicius de Moraes
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Trifecta
Now that’s what you call a publishing triple-whammy: Hitler, golf and the Olympics, all in one book.
Faces of Brazil
One of the official posters for the Olympics. (“It’s really hard for us in Brazil to choose one artist to represent the Games.”). When it comes to ideals of feminine beauty, on the other hand, the country still seems to prefer … Continue reading
Posted in Brazil, Photography, Race, Sport, Uncategorized
Tagged Brazil, Race, Rio Olympics
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Notebook
Watching a game on television, or even with friends, is like listening in on some serious literary criticism: ‘un passaggio sopraffino, filigrana’ (‘an extra-fine filigree pass’) or else ‘un passaggio sincopato, che splendore ritmico’ (‘a syncopated passage of play, what … Continue reading
Ingerland
Blind optimism meets reality. This clip of Steve McLaren during last night’s game is the perfect summing-up of media coverage of the England team at every tournament in the past 50 years. Hilarious. [Thanks, Krish]
