Category: Sport

The Ever-Changing Picture of Going to the Match

1 December 2023 / 11

70 years on, Mark Perryman and Guardian football cartoonist David Squires (see image above) revisit LS Lowry’s greatest painting Reputedly a Man City fan LS Lowry’s 1953 masterpiece Going to the Match depicted not Maine Road... Continue reading

Mark Perryman

Sport

Bobby, Frannie and what we have lost

27 October 2023 / 12

Bobby Charlton: 1966 World Cup Winner, 1967 First Division Champions, 1968 European Cup Winner. Frannie Lee: 1968 First Division Champions, 1969 FA Cup Winner, 1970 League Cup... Continue reading

Mark Perryman

Sport

Bradman: A Dialectical View of the Don

17 July 2023 / 13

As England and Australia continue the age-old clashes for the Ashes this summer, one name always hovers over the collective psyche of both teams as they take... Continue reading

Sean Ledwith

Sport

Commonsense socialism: Liverpool, Shankly and solidarity

24 September 2022 / 11

The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how... Continue reading

Mark Perryman

Sport

Culture for All: Why Sport Matters

9 May 2022 / 11

As part of the Culture for All series, supported by the Communication Workers Union, we’re proud to present a short film about why sport matters, by Michael Roberts. Why... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Sport

Culture for All: Why Football Matters

8 April 2022 / 12

Next up in our series of short films about culture and cultural democracy is a film by Martin Cloake on football, followed by the text of his... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Sport

Colliers, coalfields and communism

26 December 2021 / 24

David Douglass review Colliers: Northumberland’s Pitmen and Their Football League Team, by Jon Tait, Rough Badger Press ISBN 9798532247727 The coalfields of the 20’s were a hotbed... Continue reading

David Douglass

Sport

Building a popular, progressive sporting culture

2 April 2021 / 16

Mark Perryman has been reading up on the sport we’ve lost, and what sport might become, as what seems like a never-ending lockdown gradually eases Way back... Continue reading

Mark Perryman

Sport

Of Empires and Umpires: Cricket and Politics in Pakistan

2 September 2020 / 11

Sean Ledwith writes about how colonialism and racism has conditioned the history of Test cricket between Pakistan and England This summer’s Test series between England and Pakistan... Continue reading

Sean Ledwith

Sport

Black Cricketers Matter: Racism, Resistance and the West Indies

24 July 2020 / 11

Sean Ledwith shows how cricket can be a site and a symbol of political liberation as well as of racist, imperialist oppression The First Test between England... Continue reading

Sean Ledwith

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