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Argentina coach Diego Maradona writes another chapter in a turbulent life
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Football writing
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Late one evening in September 1996, I sat sharing a table with former Argentine football star Diego Maradona in San Lorenzo's in Knightsbridge, wondering if I was about to have my nose broken.
Worship in a cathedral of football
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Football writing
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Few sporting venues in the world contain as much history or enduring power within them as the Santiago Bernabéu stadium, the home of Real Madrid football club.
Spanish football's uncivil war
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Football writing
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The gigantic Santiago Bernabéu football stadium will resemble something akin to a powder keg on Saturday night when it hosts the latest encounter between its owners Real Madrid and visitors FC Barcelona, writes Jimmy Burns.
Maradona plays political hero to massed demonstrators
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Football writing
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Even if George W. Bush knows next to nothing about soccer, he would have been uncomfortably reminded of the game's popularity yesterday as Diego Maradona rallied thousands of protesters against the US president.
Don Patricio O'Connell - An Irishman and the Politics of Spanish Football
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Football writing
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Football in the Spanish-speaking world owes a great deal to foreigners, not least those of an Anglo-Saxon or Gaelic background. The game in South America and in Spain, like the railways and the mines, followed the flag of British colonialism with traders and colonisers of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish origin helping to form the first football clubs as part of their social engagement with the 'natives'.
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