Against the Run of Play
Josh BlandRamblings on football, supporter culture and cultural heritage
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The hand of Heggebø and the long arm of the FA
Source: https://www.wba.co.uk/news/aune-heggebo-fa-charge-appeal-unsuccessful.
My first away game of the season was just about perfect.
A sun-soaked Saturday at Carrow Road. Two thousand Albion fans in full voice and glorious technicolou...
Gianni Infantino: A Premature Obituary
By Doha Stadium Plus Qatar from Doha, Qatar - Gianni Infantino, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56483691.
Gianni Infantino, the Swiss lawyer who rose from relative obscurity to become the most powerful man in wor...
Breaking the Immersion
Trump and a fawning Infantino photobomb history. Image source: Ben Jacobs on X - https://t.co/cq74pDpEuE.
Every World Cup eventually produces an image that encapsulates the entire tournament, one moment into which a month of football seem...
The World Cup Was Never Theirs
Polaroids of England 2-1 DR Congo, Atlanta, 01/07/26 (Author’s own).
Three weeks. Nine states. Countless pints. More miles of highway than I care to remember. A dizzying array of friends, family and acquaintances, old and new. And at the...
The Tyranny of "Hydration Breaks"
Given the nature of this Substack, you’d be forgiven for reading this headline and assuming you were about to dive into yet another sanctimonious rant about the rampant commercialisation of modern football.
To an extent you’d be right.
I...
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Academic heritage researcher based at the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre. I research themes of identity, memory, community, home and cultural resilience in the context of football.
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