Month: March 2007

So now we have to add racist chanting from fans to the stories of gambling, a dressing room dividing along racial lines, underperforming players, illegal transfers and goodness knows what else. I regret it all. Like many people, I have second and third and fourth teams, sides I have a soft spot for for a…

British football grew and thrived in northern industrial towns. The environment that fostered the game survived pretty much intact until the late 1950s. For people of my generation, the 1950s will always feel twenty years ago – albeit twenty very long, entirely revolutionary years. In truth, it’s half a century now, and the people who…

The 1939 World’s Fair in New York looked forward to the wonderful world of 1960 in a way we now find remarkable – or regrettable – or risible: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74cO9X4NMb4] All of human life is there. Thrust into the future, sure. Or future 1.0 (beta), or into what the future was going to be, once, when…