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Photo Daily | November 8 | Sapporo Fans Prepare for the Match

By Thomas Dunmore • Nov 8th, 2007 • Category: Photography

Photo credit: sasakei on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.



Photo Daily | November 7 | We Are Reds, Japan-style

By Thomas Dunmore • Nov 7th, 2007 • Category: Photography

Photo credit: redia_09 on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.



Photo Daily | November 6 | Ultra nagasaki

By Thomas Dunmore • Nov 6th, 2007 • Category: Photography

Photo credit: kumama-republicUltra nagasaki on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.



Don’t Panic

By Thomas Dunmore • Nov 5th, 2007 • Category: About this site

For the half a dozen people who actually read this thing regularly, just a quick note that the site will be going down briefly either tonight or tomorrow night when I upgrade the backend of this thing. A lot of technical issues have been bugging me, and Guy Fawkes’ night seems like a good [...]



The Mad Genius of Ray Hudson

By Thomas Dunmore • Nov 5th, 2007 • Category: Media

We are both late and early on this (since we posted an ode to GOLTV commentator Ray Hudson some months ago, when he aptly captured the enigma that is Riquelme as a “big, beautiful zombie”), but the blog Hudsonia is burning up the soccersphere with a collection of his inimical style in text and audio [...]



myfootballclub.co.uk: Closing in on Purchase

By Thomas Dunmore • Nov 5th, 2007 • Category: News & Notes

Remember those crazy chaps at myfootballclub.co.uk, who were going to band together for 35 quid each to buy an English football club? It looks like they’re about to pull it off, as they’re in due diligence for the purchase of an as yet unnamed club, as their site explains:
Over 53,000 signed up to phase [...]



Reading Subsidise Fans’ Travel, What Will Tottenham Do?

By Thomas Dunmore • Nov 5th, 2007 • Category: News & Notes

Reading are firmly ensconced in the middle of the Premier League table, but apparently their recent inconsistent form has prompted enough guilt for the players to decide to pay 75% of the coach fare for 350 of their fans to travel to the next away game.
Reading captain Graeme Murty told BBC Sport: “We know [...]



Photo Daily | November 5 | J-League Division Two

By Thomas Dunmore • Nov 5th, 2007 • Category: Photography

Photo credit: sasakei on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.



A Note on Comments, and Introduce Yourselves

By Thomas Dunmore • Nov 4th, 2007 • Category: About this site

At Pitch Invasion, I’m fortunate to have people commenting on the posts who are smarter and more knowledgeable about the global game than me. Even if I forget to show it, I love getting thoughtful, critical comments; the beauty of blogging (says someone who has spent two years working on a dissertation no-one outside of [...]