That Qatar World Cup is really setting a new standard for labor rights: Thousands of migrant labourers from North Korea are toiling for years on construction sites in Qatar for virtually no pay – including on the vast new metropolis that is the centrepiece of...
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I intended to post this on Friday, but the time I had carved out on Friday for this unexpectedly became unavailable, and this past weekend (like most in England) was.
The group draws for Brazil 2014, which starts next week, are not quite balanced, and I'm writing my usual ill-advised predictions for the group stages. As I wrote in December,.
The following is a guest contribution by Gordon Sparks, who has been broadcasting Plymouth Argyle's matches for thirty years. Gordon's been an on-air presenter with the BBC since 2001, and has been in radio since his teenage years in the late 1970s. He calls an...
We hardly need to cover the incredible corruption of FIFA. It's only a matter of finding out how much money the Qatar sheiks and Russian oligarchs put in the pockets.
When the draw for the World Cup finals happened, there was much hilarious moaning in England. Since FIFA hates England, the English received the most difficult group imaginable. England FA.
I'm a little late to this wrap up, but both professional and personal obligations have occupied a great deal of my time over the past few weeks. The decks are mostly cleared now, so let's talk soccer. The lineup for Brazil 2014 is set, and...
So states Arsenal's Jack Wilshere in his sober reflection on who ought to qualify for the English national soccer football team. I should ask him if ten years counts for.
It'd be nice if FIFA had the least interest in human rights or labor rights when it made the choice for where to place the World Cup. Given the gargantuan.
is finally retiring. Ferguson has been rumored to be retiring for over a decade now, and I can still recall the sure bet that it was about ten years ago for Celtic manager Martin O'Neil to take over United. Being a right thinking individual, and...
One of the joys of following soccer is, even approaching the end of the season, nearly every game matters. As I've been writing here, the side local to my England.
Seeing as how we've been outed as a blog of eight white guys these days (c'mon, there's a little diversity here, one's Canadian and I have lived in, you know, Europe.