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Posted: Tuesday June 20th, 2006 23:21 |
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Sport as War & The Racial Politics of Football
Read it here ... (please click)
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Posted: Wednesday June 21st, 2006 08:19 |
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That's a damn good piece of writing there.
Absolute truth as well.
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Posted: Wednesday June 21st, 2006 09:04 |
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Interesting - though no mention of France fielding 11 non-whites a few years ago.
When i saw Andy Cole with children that looked like him on the pitch before a cup final game, I knew his public exposure was going to take a back seat from there.
I've always acknowledged when England play Argentina it's all about the Falklands War and playing Germany is all about the two world wars.
Still, I ask myself do we really understand and appreciate the scale of the fight. Watching England play with two players one white one black sharing the same surname J. Cole and A. Cole, an old adage comes to mind saying 'if you can't beat them join them'.
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Posted: Wednesday June 21st, 2006 11:11 |
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Superb article. Sharp and staright to the point
Its wasted in the sports forum. I will ask mods to move it to Open Forum
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Posted: Wednesday June 21st, 2006 15:22 |
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| A lot of truth in that, the english newspapers named 4 black players who should have been named in the england squad, a hint at racism? Maybe, i expected the balck newspapers to make more of a shout about it but again i expected to much!
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Posted: Wednesday June 21st, 2006 15:54 |
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| This was a brilliant article that opened my eyes even more. The last paragraph sums up exactly how I feel too.
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Posted: Thursday June 22nd, 2006 19:18 |
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"MarcusGarveyLives Posted: Tuesday May 9th, 2006 21:46 (click for full thread)
"... But there are several surprise exclusions - including Charlton's Darren Bent, Chelsea's Shaun Wright-Phillips, Ledley King (who is injured) and Spurs team-mate Jermain Defoe, who only makes the stand-by list ..."
(Source: Eriksson gambles on Walcott, The Guardian Online, 8 May 2006)
"Surprise Exclusions" ...
Darren Bent
Shaun Wright-Phillips
Ledley King
Jermain Defoe
Interesting. "Surprise"? I don't think so.
With the notable exception of Brother Sol Campbell, whose love of the European female form is well known (see: http://www.bnvillage.co.uk/forum36/19396-1.html), is having at least one European parent a pre-qualification for consideration?"
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Posted: Thursday June 22nd, 2006 19:38 |
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I mean I know that some of you are going to whine about me mentioning this but....
what about the Iranian team at the World CUp? Here these guys are coming to play soccer, but instead of being allowed to play their game, their buses are protested as well as people around the stadium because the leader of their country refuses to recognize Israel.
Fine people have issues with the leader of the country but what does it have to do with soccer? Most of these players are not conscious enough to broadcast an intelligent thought on the matter and most just wanted to out and out play the game but people again lumped their political matter in the players lap and seemed to throw Iran off for the first 20 minutes of every game.
Same with Angola against Portugal. All people could talk about is the colonization. Forget the fact that Angola was good enough to make it to the World CUp when lots of other nations were not. All every one seemed to think about was their civil war and colonization. What about just sports? But the author did bring in a ringing truth on the substitution for war and sports......
A note about the article is that Ecuador would not have attacked Honduras over a WC qualifier. Honduras is in Concacaf with us and Ecuador is grouped with South America. That is like saying Italy and Iran compete for spots.
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Posted: Thursday July 13th, 2006 20:17 |
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"Sport as War & The Racial Politics of Football?"
"Not for me thanks!"
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