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Read, relate, revolt! Books to brighten up a summer of sport
Mark Perryman finds a heap of sports books to provide a summer's worth of sporting hope, healthy goodness, and reasons to rebel For all the rising tide of industrial militancy having the making of a...
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Commonsense socialism: Liverpool, Shankly and solidarity
The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That's how I see football, that's how I see life. - Bill Shankly. In 1995 the newly...
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Love Football not FIFA
Mark Perryman argues that to understand the politics of Qatar, we need to start with how the World Cup has always been political Sunday's Qatar World Cup kick-off approaches. 'Stadiums of Shame'...
View ArticleQatar World Cup: The Ugly Face of The Beautiful Game
Soccer elevates its divinities and exposes them to the vengeance of the believers. With the ball on his foot and the national colors on his chest, the player who embodies the nation marches off to win...
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Sports Politics Of The Year
Mark Perryman reworks the BBC's 'Sports Personality Of The Year' programme into ' Sports Politics Of The Year', and joins up those controversial dots between sport and politics Nowadays, there's not a...
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The beautiful Pelé
Mark Perryman goes in search of what the game has lost This week Brazil is recovering from a large crowd of Bolsonaro supporters storming presidential and government buildings in an attempt to...
View ArticleBradman: A Dialectical View of the Don
As England and Australia continue the age-old clashes for the Ashes this summer, one name always hovers over the collective psyche of both teams as they take the field. Don Bradman is indubitably the...
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The Women's World Cup - will it change anything?
On the eve of the tournament opening Mark Perryman has a ponder. Image above by Hugh Tisdale "Italia '90 was a watershed for English football. Post-Hillsborough, post-Heysel, post-awful 80s...
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England, Scotland, independence and internationalism
What's the connection between England and Scotland Euro 2024 qualification with internationalism? Mark Perryman argues the need to mend the popular-political disconnect England and Scotland have each...
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Bobby, Frannie and what we have lost
Bobby Charlton: 1966 World Cup Winner, 1967 First Division Champions, 1968 European Cup Winner. Frannie Lee: 1968 First Division Champions, 1969 FA Cup Winner, 1970 League Cup Winner and European Cup...
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The Ever-Changing Picture of Going to the Match
70 years on, Mark Perryman and Guardian football cartoonist David Squires (see image above) revisit LS Lowry's greatest painting Reputedly a Man City fan LS Lowry's 1953 masterpiece Going to the Match...
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What's there to get hot under England's collar about?
Mark Perryman gets to grips with Nike v St. George, with image above by Hugh Tisdall "This virtue signalling, namby-pamby, pearl-clutching, woke nonsense must stop now. Any more and I'll be on the...
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