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 […]
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 […]
Readers, if you have a moment to spare and would like to possibly win a prize, I would appreciate your assistance. As some of you may know, I also write for the Chicago Sports Weekly about soccer. Some of you in Chicago might have seen my articles in print; some of you elsewhere may have […]
My apologies for the lack of updates this week, besides the usual stream of photos. I’m on a research trip in New York for a few days, normal service will be resumed shortly.
I think Max might have a couple of posts brewing for the next day or two, so be sure to check in here […]
This week we wrote on:
Crowd trouble in the UEFA Cup
Soccer’s return to Silicon Valley
Who the @#$! is David Beckham?
Hudson on Riquelme
Prawn Sandwich America
Chelsea and Mickey Mouse
Crowdsourcing soccer
This week we gazed at:
Anfield?
The Egyptian Cup final
A horse-headed fan
Italy fans, Hollywood style
Spanish ultras
Polish ultras
Montrose fans from the 1960s
We started off this week with a trip to the Gold Cup final, where we watched as a bewildered neutral while the U.S. won on what felt like foreign soil by Chicago’s lakefront. We then held our first battle of the ultras, as Lech Poznan’s video supremacy was challenged by fellow Polish supporters of […]
It’s been a fun first week here: after we formally introduced ourselves and explained why we’re called pitchinvasion.net, we looked at video of those radical supporters of St Pauli and two sets of Italian ultras.
Our gaze also fell on some great photos: a sea of scarves, a young Arsenal supporter locked out of the ground […]
As I mentioned when introducing this new site, pitchinvasion.net explores fan culture and politics from the world of football. Why is the site called pitch (Americans: read field) invasion.net?
Well, I’ve been in many pitch invasions, and I’ve seen how all their manifestations represent the different facets of supporting a football team.
Indeed, the first football game […]
Pitch invasions. They can represent moments of collective joy; they can be acts of individual stupidity; they can be forms of group protest. In all their manifestations, they represent that which is glorious, terrible, empowering, inane, and perhaps even insane about the people that follow football and who have made it the world’s game. After […]
