After a week that’s seen huge media controversies in the Premier League over abuse of the referee, Brian Phillips wants to hear the supporters’ take on the issue. When you see seven Chelsea players throng around Mike Dean like a school of aggrieved piranhas, do you think “Serves him right for getting the call wrong” or “Someone toss them a poisoned cow”?
Continuing our recent theme, Brian Phillips takes a look at the history of one of the strangest supporter songs in football — “Goodnight, Irene,” an American folk song about love and suicide that’s been the anthem of Bristol Rovers for almost 60 years.
Capello as mob boss, Capello as fascist dictator, Capello as Roman emperor: Brian Phillips looks at how Capello is being portrayed in England, and asks why they’re so keen on tyrannical rule.
As the top teams’ fans revolt against their owners whilst the smaller teams slip further and further behind them, would European football benefit from American-style revenue sharing or a salary cap? Brian Phillips asks the big question.
So we’ve had the Second Coming at Newcastle. We’ve had a sure sign of the Apocalypse at White Hart Lane. About the only thing this week needs to make the average football fan look nervously toward the skies is news that a Vatican-backed tournament for priests and seminarians has been disrupted by unruly fans and a flurry of red cards.
In the wake of this week’s Uefa/Fifa-G14 accord, Brian Phillips sat down with the two men responsible at, uh, a Red Lobster?
Find out what they had for dinner and how they crushed the G14.
The owner of Newcastle United, the eccentric billionaire Mike Ashley, is famous for taking his obsession with privacy to extraordinary lengths. He’s thought to live somewhere in Herefordshire, in a large mansion protected by an elaborate security apparatus, and to emerge only in order to distribute lager to fans at Newcastle games. He […]
As we hurtle into 2008, Brian from The Run of Play looks at what not to care about in the coming year.
The start of a new year is traditionally a time to take stock, reassess your priorities, and decide what to focus on during the year to come. For football fans, that means figuring […]
In the global bazaar of contemporary football, in which a top-flight team is apt to have a Paraguayan striker, twin Hungarian left-backs, and a goalkeeper who was downloaded directly from the Internet (“JENS LEHMANN: Avg user rating: 3.2 stars. Estimated time to download: ~3 min. Note: This program has not been tested for […]
