Category: Football
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The European Super League and the Theft of the People’s Game
The ESL Idea Won’t Die Because The Current Business Model Is Unsustainable The 2021 proposal regarding the creation of a European ‘super league’ provoked mass protests from fans across England. It seemed to the many who turned out to protest in front of the grounds of the ‘big six’ and others that this was the…
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Owls On the Brink: The Deep-Rooted Financial Crisis at Sheffield Wednesday
The owls are the latest venerable football club facing financial armageddon. Choosing a football club is something of a rite of passage for working class people in England. I grew up in a small town half way between Manchester and Sheffield. It was the mid 1990s and Manchester United were just starting their long period…
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Not My National Anthem
As the national anthem opened the start of the Premier League season at Wembley Stadium on Sunday for the Charity Shield, the red half of the stadium drowned it out with boos and whistles. It wasn’t the first time Liverpool fans have booed God Save the King (or Queen), and it won’t be the last,…
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The Liverpool Parade: From Celebration to Panic
“Under socialism, the event wouldn’t be a liability to manage, but a celebration for the people, by the people” What should have been a day of celebration turned into disaster. The headlines should’ve been full of jubilant Liverpool fans watching the team parade the Premier League trophy through the city. Instead, people were glued to…
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The Scouser in Our Team
One of the major stories of this season has been the contract situations surrounding some of Liverpool’s biggest stars. Virgil van Dijk, Mo Salah, and Trent Alexander-Arnold all had contracts set to expire at the end of the season. It’s a bizarre situation for a club that has led the title race to have its…
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Carragher and AFCON
The most recent liberal uproar is over Jamie Carragher’s comments about the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) following Liverpool’s emphatic win over Manchester City on Sky Sports. His comments came while discussing the exciting form of Mohamed Salah and how it wouldn’t be hindered by a ‘major’ international cup competition. It was pointed out afterwards…
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Rashfords Revival?
At the Project, we were quite critical of the furore surrounding Marcus Rashford—we even wrote an article expressing our critique. We took issue with Roc Nation’s approach, which tends to portray athletes as modern left-wing idols, essentially polished ambassadors for campaigns they often have little genuine interest in. That’s not to say Rashford didn’t care…
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The Welsh Evertonians.
Everton and Wales. If you know your history.… A common joke among football fans, particularly Reds like myself, is to laughingly refer to Everton fans as Welsh. Many perceive this as light-hearted banter about fans not hailing from the local area. However, there’s a kernel of truth to it, albeit not in the manner one…
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FA Scrap Cup Replays
27th of February 2024 we produced an article called The Death of the FA Cup. This was on the back of the decision to allow the TNT sports the exclusive rights to the FA Cup games. TNT Sports being a subscription service, whereas the FA Cup has always been played on terrestrial channels. That article…
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The Downfall of Marcus Rashford
Dr Marcus Rashford, MBE. A young man from Withington, Greater Manchester. A graduate of Carrington academy and the main striker for one of the world’s biggest clubs, Manchester United. A club not as successful in recent years, but still a giant in European football, a club that has a certain level of expectation. Marcus Rashford…
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