The Christine Sinclair Show
It's the Christine Sinclair show within Canadian sports media circles today. The star Canadian forward, who scored her country's only goal in their 2-1 loss to Germany in the Women's World Cup, made it easy for Canadian journalists in search of a story...
"Women tend not to be able to throw things, tantrums excepted, very well"
That's by far the highest-rated comment on John Ashdown's Women's World Cup round-up for the Guardian, a round-up which proceeded to (mostly) ignore the fact Germany v. Canada was great entertainment, and focus on the incredibly subjective question of ...
Sensationalist headline of the day
From the Daily Mail (but of course): "Manchester City and Carlos Tevez dragged into match-fixing scandal."
Followed by the lede paragraph:
Manchester City and star striker Carlos Tevez have inadvertently found themselves embroiled in a match-fixi...
A brief, made-up football writing typology
It seems to me there are three distinct types of football writing.
First, we have the straight-up, journalistic, newspaper style match-report. There are some intriguing variations on this approach, like Michael Cox's Zonal Marking with its intense tac...
It’s all crips and bloods in the footblogosphere
So over the past couple of months, things have maybe gotten a bit hostile on the football blog scene.
I apparently played a part.
A while ago, a certain writer well known to most of you from the entertaining blog Surreal Football, wrote a piece on ES...
"Lying English Pirates" report, then editorialize
One of things I've been interested in since the recent FIFA corruption debacle and its subsequent disappearance under the regular news cycle is the transformation of the impartial sports journalist into anti-FIFA crusader.
I don't think this is necess...
Same old same old
I know. I missed a few things.
Mostly the launch of the Blizzard, what that meant for football blogging and whether it heralded a new page in football journalism, which I hope to talk about in the coming days.
As I hope you've been aware, I've been w...
Same old same old
I know. I missed a few things.
Mostly the launch of the Blizzard, what that meant for football blogging and whether it heralded a new page in football journalism, which I hope to talk about in the coming days.
As I hope you've been aware, I've been w...
We’re baaaack
And you thought I was dead. Lots to talk about. Watch this space...
The Pay Wall-Picket Fence : Pickpockets Beware or Readers Be Warned by Elliot
A More Splendid Life welcomes back Elliot of the wonderful futfanatico.com, here to shoo away some of the tumbleweeds clogging up our administrative offices over the last couple of weeks. Enjoy!
An abbreviated history of the internet. First, the ...
An brief idea for a new kind of football podcast
Lots of interesting media stories this week, particularly related to television rights. I probably don't need to dedicate an entire post to the subtext of the FA gearing up for a possible battle with UEFA over television rights monies from England qual...
Okay, some actual practical advice on soccer blogging*
Wow, did yesterday's post ever open a vein. Response was enthusiastic, although there was some notable dissent from my perspective on how to be a successful soccer writer on the web. The first criticism was I didn't define "success" in soccer blogging....
