Away from Home: The Struggle for Football in Palestine
June 12th 2014, Maracana Stadium. To much fanfare, World Cup 2014 kicks off. Opening game – Brazil vs Palestine. Could...
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Sharing the wealth: Copa America and the Decentralisation of Argentinian Football
Forget the penalties, the 2011 Copa America represents a landmark moment for Argentinian football. Making his debut for Just Football,...
Continue reading »Toppling the Murdoch Empire: Could a Pub Landlady from Portsmouth help seal BSkyB’s fate?
While the News Corporation / News International phone hacking storm continues to rumble with menace, Theo Fan reports on another...
Continue reading »Striking A Chord: On Spurs, Modric and the line
I wrestled with my conscience on June 30th. Despite my writing pretensions, my profession is that of an educator and...
Continue reading »FIFA Presidential Election: Are the FA Right to Abstain?
Next week FIFA’s 208 members will vote in the latest FIFA Presidential election. Current president Sepp Blatter has held the...
Continue reading »Knocking cricket off its perch: The development of football in India
by Simon Godfrey In a country which is growing at a rapid rate economically and with a population exceeding 1.2 billion...
Continue reading »NFL v Premier League: Socialism v Capitalism in sport format
by Roger Domeneghetti Whisper it (just so you don’t upset Sarah Palin and her Tea Party chums) but there’s a...
Continue reading »Politics and Personality in Sport: In the Commercial Era, Does Tradition Matter?
by Chris Woolfrey In the last piece I wrote for Just Football I retold the story of Matthias Sindelar, the Austrian...
Continue reading »Can a Journalist Overthrow Sepp Blatter?
This humble editor thought the ‘Grant Wahl for FIFA President’ tweets were all part of some elaborate joke when they...
Continue reading »Death of a Chilean Love Affair
Last Friday, Marcelo Bielsa put an end to three months of speculation by announcing his resignation as manager of the...
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