In this interview, football agent Jerome Anderson responds to a question about there the bad impression of agents comes from.
He can only speak for himself, he says. ‘I had a place at university to study law’.
Well, thanks for clearing t[…]

Fawlty England fans risk jail – on the front page of Ananova this story was trailed as “England football fans could be jailed if they do the Basil Fawlty goosestep during the World Cup Finals in Germany” – erm, yes, B.F. not a[…]

At the risk of sounding like Julie Burchill, Football is a bit gay. Tom highlights the interesting references in the Runciman piece about this, and it really is a subject that doesn’t get much coverage**.
Slavoj Zizek once persuasively argued t[…]

Coming out of the previous argument on the efficacy of football managers, comes a nice little podcast from the University of Warwick on changes made in managerial practice. That is all dinky and possibly not as significant as Dr Sue Bridgewater think[…]

More on the LRB/Runciman/Mourinho debate!
1. What Runciman misses out is the connection – especially long-term – between discrete results in football. This may well be subject to other statistical laws – or maybe there are other sci[…]

I thought the article that Mark refers to by David Runciman’s in the LRB was a necessary corrective to the myth of the manager he rightly takes to task. It’s analogous to the concept of the super-CEO.
Both make too much play of the effect[…]

Whodathunk they would draw?
I mean, a team the quality of Manchester United versus a team four divisions below them?
What price on a draw for Man U vs Combined Cambridge next year?[…]

ok here is david runciman on some fellow named mourinho in the lrb, arguin that the concept of management skeez is a bit of a myth — so far so good, it is “auteur theory” mystification of an inherently collective phenom — but […]

I believe this idea was once used by Select back in the mists of, but this is going to be much better:
The Pop World Cup
You don’t even have to be signed up to LiveJournal to take part (honest).
This has very little to do with sport really, exc[…]

Just a quick note for anyone who got a violent computer game for Christmas:
US Computer Game Releases Correalated Against Violent Crime Statistics.
Food for thought indeed.[…]