by Elliott
For almost a century, money and soccer lived an uneasy relationship. Teams scraped by on modest sponsorships and reliable but not cosmic TV deals. They competed for players, but dollars and cents arms races were rare. Then came the Galácticos. Read the rest of this entry »
The ‘Decade by Decade’ series concludes in September with a series of articles focussing on football in the 2000s. Read the rest of this entry »
by Liam Blackburn
“The truth is it’s been more Page Three than romance. The beautiful game, slapped all over a Murdoch medium between the adverts, hyped relentlessly, appreciated only for its surface.” Read the rest of this entry »
by Michael Moruzzi
As a teenager of 1990’s England, I look back on this decade as a mixed bag. Nostalgia has an uncanny habit of ignoring the crap. In 1994 the selection for the Mercury Prize included Pulp (His and Hers), Blur (Parklife), and The Prodigy (Music for the Jilted Generation); these are all records that I liked, but they were beaten by M People’s ‘Elegant Slumming’. It was a strange time, and it was at this point that the TV show Fantasy Football first aired on BBC, having been successfully piloted on radio. Read the rest of this entry »
by David Yaffe-Bellany
For Sir Alex Ferguson, 1998/99 was a year of exorcism. The demons of European under performance, highlighted by the ineptitude of the Premier League’s finest on the continental stage, had Ferguson’s place in football’s coaching pantheon under threat. All that was about to change. Read the rest of this entry »
