Sport

Sport

• What do they know of Cricket?

  

  England’s Cricket World Cup has Mark Perryman hunting out his favourite CLR James quote to make sense of it all

• Football as resistance: women kicking back against bigotry

  

  Shadia Edwards-Dashti, journalist and Actonians football player, highlights the significance of women's football beyond the pitch

• Spring into sport

  

  As one sport’s contest approaches its climax another has barely begun - Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman reviews Spring books for those who measure their years out in seasons not months

• Success for England will mean what we make it mean

  

  As England prepare to take on Colombia tonight, Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman outlines what we might or might not be able to look forward to

• Le Tour: Nothing to lose but our chains

  

  As the annual cycling spectacle of the Tour De France begins, Mark Perryman argues the case for two wheels good

• After the eating and drinking, the sport?

  

  A selection of 2017 sporting reads by Mark Perryman for the post-festive recovery period

• Olympics: social democratic Team GB vs freemarket England Team

  

  Mark Perryman outlines what  Great Britain’s Olympic success does mean - and what it doesn’t mean 

• Sports reading: more of a marathon than a sprint

  

  Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football offers his reading selection for a summer of sport

• Never stop us dreaming

  

  As Euro 2016 begins Mark Perryman offers an 11-point plan finally to end England’s years of hurt

• Catching up with Portugal: the nature of English decline

  

  50 years ago England beat Portugal in the ’66 World Cup Final but Mark Perryman argues English decline has left England racing to keep up with their Euro rivals

• The Exclusion Games: what went wrong with Brazil’s Olympic dream?

  

  It’s business as usual beneath the bread and circuses of Rio 2016, argues radical ethnographer Adam Talbot 

• The England Squad: an imagined community of eleven named people

  

  Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football explores what the announcement of the Euro 2016 squad says about modern Englishness

• Hillsborough: Football’s greatest hurt

  

  Mark Perryman argues that Hillsborough needs to be understood not just as a human tragedy but a consequence of how football was changing in the 1980s

• In a stink about a pink St George Cross

  

  Professional controversialist Toby Young has got himself all in a froth about a pink St George Cross at England’s international this week

• They took the words right out of our mouth

  

  Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football applauds Dortmund fans’ resistance to a European Superleague

• Beyonce, black lives and the Super Bowl

  

  Musician Dave Randall looks at the furore surrounding Beyonce's performance at the Super Bowl

• Top Ten Sports Books for 2016

  

  Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football picks his favourite reads for the new sporting year

• Autumn books for the Corbyn effect

  

  Mark Perryman from Philosophy Football provides a rundown of new books for the #jezwecan majority

• Here comes the summer of sport

  

  Mark Perryman reviews the best of this Summer’s Sports Books

• Liberté, Égalité, Vélocité

  

  Mark Perryman makes the case for a two-wheeled revolution

• Football’s Minority Movement

  

  In the face of  the Premier League’s conspicuous consumption Mark Perryman wonders where the fans’ fury might end up?

• For the good of the game?

  

  Mark Perryman of Philosophy Footballqueries the worth of Football's latest TV deal

• Je suis Cantona

  

  Next Saturday is the 20th anniversary of Eric’s Selhurst Park Kung Fu kick assault on a supporter. Philosophy Football'sMark Perryman celebrates a night when football took sides

• Not much peace, plenty of ill will, a good seasonal read needed please

  

  Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football offers his top ten books to buy to make somebody’s Christmas

• Greatcoats for goalposts: celebrating the Christmas Truce of 1914

  

  Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football considers different ways of marking the centenary of World War One

• Beyond the froth

  

  Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football picks out the best of the autumn sports books

• Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: the World Cup, the Olympics and the Fight for Democracy

  

  It was perfectly fair to enjoy the World Cup and carry on fighting for a better future, argues Orlando Hill

• Petition: Suspend the Israeli Football Association's FIFA membership

  Membership of the Israeli Football Association (IFA) should be suspended until Israel respects the human rights of Palestinians and observes international law, thus enabling Palestinian footballers to play and compete nationally and internationally

• Dazzled and humiliated: Leonardo Boff offers his analysis of the Brazil v Germany match

  

  Orlando Hill writes on the role of corporate contamination in Brazil's humiliating defeat in the World Cup

• Reading le tour

  

  Mark Perryman reviews books that can help frame our enjoyment of the Tour de France