Tag: 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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Why America is buying up English football – and what it means for the future of ‘soccer’
Repost from The Conversation When the Premier League broke away from the rest of English football in 1992, its 22 clubs generated £205 million in its debut season, and the average player earned £2,050 a week. Thirty years later, despite having two fewer clubs, the league’s revenue had increased by 2,850% to £6.1 billion and the average…
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