Pitch Invasion Wins WSC Gold Award
Forgive us a moment of self-congratulation, as I received word today from across the pond back home in England that Pitch Invasion had won a Gold award in the When Saturday Comes Web Awards. The magazine’s selections are a who’s-who of some of the best football sites on the web, and it’s an honour to be chosen among them.
This award does mean something in particular to me, as I grew up reading When Saturday Comes, which has been Britain’s best national football magazine for a little over two decades now — it started off an independent fanzine at a time fans did not have a voice in the 1980s. When in the 1990s football become the fashionable big business it is now, WSC continued its independent minded coverage of the sport, unafraid to criticise the game’s greed and to probe the culture of the game with intelligence and humour. It’s fair to say without WSC, this site would not exist.
Here’s the page from this month’s magazine with the awards. Every other site mentioned is worth visiting too, especially our friends at Two Hundred Percent, The Run of Play, Transparency in Sport, Football Filter, European Football Weekends, The 100 Football Grounds Club and the Global Game. Click the image below to see the full article.
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All hail Pitch Invasion.
Woot!
Awesome, congrats Tom.
Congrats! Im glad i bugged you about updating almost a year ago!
Im also shocked that kickette didnt get a WSC award! Just shocked!
Congrats Tom!! It’s well deserved. I know this is the first place I go for intelligent football articles(commentary, etc.).
and you know this…. Tom
Well deserved Tom. I find myself drawing on your insight and pointing to your posts more and more frequently for the same reasons that WSC used in choosing your site. You’re also getting my vote everytime I visit US Soccer where the Best Blog list includes your site – http://www.ussoccer.com/Best-of-Awards/2009-Best-Of-Awards/Best-Soccer-Blog.aspx