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The Year It All Changed

Hackney Marshes hits the big time. 

I’m going to take you back. Back to a time when Brit pop ruled the airwaves, to a time of New Labour, national mourning, cloned sheep and mad cows. I’m talking 1997. That year, Man Utd had won the premier league with a 7 point cushion, the memory of the season before was still fresh, Stan Collymore denying Newcastle the title leaving Kevin Keegan slumped over the ad hoardings at Anfield. It was pure theatre.

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Categories Sport Tags Nike Football

By on 24/10/08

Diego Maradona

On The Prowl

When Diego went hunting for Belgians.

There are great sporting moments, and then there are great sporting photos. It can be hard to distinguish between the two. Usain Bolt pounding his chest, Roger Federer collapsing to his knees at Wimbledon, Bobby Moore lifting the world cup - all great moments, but not necessarily leading to great photos.

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Categories Sport Photography Tags Football Photography World Cup

By on 14/10/08

TYPE TEAMS

Type Teams

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Categories Design Fashion Sport Tags Euro 2008 Fashion Football Steve Rura

By on 18/6/08

PAST OR PRESENT?

Past Or Present?

WHAT WILL DECIDE THIS ONE NIGHT IN MOSCOW?

Champions League Final day is upon us, the culmination of an entire season’s work, every cone lapped in training, every early night, every time you chose grilled chicken breast over deep-fried wings, endured hot air on your face from a Fergie rant, or concealed a snigger when Avram chalked up a masterwerk on the tactics board. This is it, one night in Moscow, red versus blue, north versus south.

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Categories Sport Tags Chelsea Football Manchester United Sport

By on 21/5/08

THE HUMBLE CREATIVE

The Humble Creative

At Stamford Bridge on Saturday, just after halftime, Gary Neville and Paul Scholes were returning to their seats. Both were wearing suits; neither had been selected with Fergie casting a wary eye, at least in Scholes’ case, on Tuesday’s Champions League game against Barcelona. Predictably enough, great swathes of abuse rose up from the stands, from the big naked bellies of West London dads, from the well-spoken mouths of those with fathers’ rich enough to buy season tickets for their sons. But the abuse was aimed only at Neville, and mostly at his new moustache. Not a word could be heard of Scholes, save for the odd hushed whisper: “Great player, that fella,” or “nice if he played for us”…

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Categories Sport Tags Champions League Football Scholes Sport

By Marc on 30/4/08

THE FALLEN ANGEL OF BRAZIL

The Fallen Angel Of Brazil

Asked a few years ago what he thought of Liverpool FC, Pele, a global ambassador for football no less, said that, yes, Liverpool were a fine team indeed. They have great players, he continued, like Ryan Giggs.

In Brazil, “the greatest player that’s ever been” isn’t revered quite so much as he is in, say, FIFA HQ. He may be ‘The King’, but there’s a feeling of disassociation these days between the young man from the streets who left his mark on the game and the deity he has now become. He recently joked that he was more famous than God because people in Asia knew him, too. So no, in Brazil, they hold another player dearer to their hearts, a man born with a bent spine, one leg shorter than the other and each pointing in opposite directions. That man was Garrincha...

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Categories Sport Tags Football Garrincha

By on 11/4/08

WHAT IS IT?

What Is It?

Some people are really bad at table football. So bad, in fact, that they can barely muster enough power in their goalkeeper’s clearance to reach the opponent’s back line, let alone breach it. I know one such man. I came face to face with him not along ago and it was embarrassing to say the least. Mostly, though, people can play a bit. They partake once in a while and occasionally do something half decent on the pitch - a pass, say, or even a pass followed by a goal. There are also those who can play with their left hand only and still beat you hands down. They are few and far between, a rare breed indeed.

More rare, though, are those who love the game so dearly that they set out to design and build the most glorious ode to table football you could possibly imagine. That, dear friend, is what you see here.

Read more about it here.

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Categories Design Sport Fun Tags Design Football Sport

By on 9/4/08

RIGHTFULLY RED

Rightfully Red

So ‘Grand Slam Super Soccer Sensational Sublime Stupendous Sunday’ has been and gone.

And the Premier League continues to insist that all fixtures are drawn at random using some special machine they keep at HQ. Oh look, would you believe it, the Big Four have been drawn against each other on the same day. Oh and look again, it’s on Easter Sunday. Of all the days eh? Wasn’t that the second ‘G.S.S.S.S.S.S.S’ we’ve had this season? Random? Hardly.

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Categories Sport Tags creativity Football

By on 25/3/08

A CASUAL KICKABOUT

A Casual Kickabout

Just as a little side, we headed down the road recently for a little kickabout and for some reason one of us decided to film the whole thing. It’s just a few keepy-uppies and training drills really, nothing much at all. Standard fare in fact.

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Categories Sport Media Tags Advertising Football Fun

By on 6/2/08

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