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2 Feb 2024

On the Ball with D. H. Lawrence

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D. H. Lawrence: Spring (c. January 1929) watercolour (30 x 22.5 cm)     I.    John Worthen's short piece in the latest Journal of D. H....
24 Aug 2023

I on Sports: One Guy's Opinion of Football as a Televised Global Spectacle

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  According to Roland Barthes, professional sport in general - and perhaps football in particular - is a modern phenomenon cast in the ances...
20 Aug 2023

On Football and the (Lost) Art of Time-Wasting

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  Today, we live in an era of universal Fergie time; one impatient of stoppages  and which threatens to extend a 90-minute game indefinitely...
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30 Dec 2022

Reflections on the Death of a Footballer

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Dominic Snow: Saint PelĂ© (2007) Oil on canvas (51 x 77 cm) saatchiart.com     Have you heard the news?    The great Brazilian footballer Pe...
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26 Jun 2014

Reflections on the 2014 FIFA World Cup

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2014 FIFA World Cup Official Logo During certain periods, in certain societies, says Barthes, the theatre had a major social functi...
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