Minus the Shooting 2010

"let the memories begin!"

Saturday, 14 June 2014

New Labours

›
Well, Mark got there first but there's going to be lots written about the Spain vs Netherlands match. It may all come to nothing (it won...
Thursday, 15 July 2010

Folding up the Wallcharts

›
When Mark and I decided to set up a football blog it was only going to be for the duration of South Africa 2010... and here we are. I've...
9 comments:
Wednesday, 14 July 2010

missed narratives

›
Normally commentators and pundits are desperate to stitch together any kind of narrative they can from the frequently random events of footb...

Collapsing The Field

›
‘The intense immersion and heightened dissipate instantly once the tension of competition is over. As a World Cup watcher, I usually start t...

Remediations

›
I was born in the age of the instant replay, but only just - if it was in fact in 1970 that they started using it, as I seem to recall havin...
2 comments:
Monday, 12 July 2010

Tension, shocks, but not much drama

›
Sporting events always end with a feeling of anti-climax, even when you've won them. The intense immersion and heightened dissipate inst...
7 comments:

It’s Not Over: The World Cup Dromenon

›
Philosopher Robert Pfaller suggested that the anxiety displayed by onlookers of a football match (agitated, aggressive, mumbling, shouting c...
2 comments:

The Golden Balls Of Diego

›
Well, after a comment here and now that Forlan has (deservedly, I think) won the Golden Ball, I'd better make my position clear... When...
11 comments:
Saturday, 10 July 2010

A Complicated Game Simplified By Fools

›
Mark's recent post on technique raises lots of interesting questions, not least why the England team's is so poor. Is England's ...
Friday, 9 July 2010

Fine Margins

›
When I said that Frank Lampard's disallowed goal against Germany was irrelevant, I didn't mean that it wouldn't have changed the...

Golden Balls: Lionel Messi - really?

›
The sinister FIFA Technical Study Group (sounds like something out of one of CS Lewis's alien paranoia novels) has come up with the Gold...
13 comments:

Technique

›
Long, long ago in the tournament - when England were still in, that long ago - Giovanni and I had a little disagreement about "techniq...
17 comments:

Thank God for Jonathan Wilson

›
Jonathan Wilson's tactical survey of the World Cup focusses on Spain, while also reassuring me over my own sanity: There are those who ...
10 comments:
Thursday, 8 July 2010

Myths Of The Near Past

›
I’m loathe to mention him here, particularly in a vaguely positive light, but Nick Hornby once said something interesting a...

Ghana's Double-Bind

›
Haven't been able to comment on the various ghost posts below because I can't figure out how to do it on my phone but here's a f...

What If Muller Was Suspended?

›
Only just watched the Spain/Germany Quarter Final, the highlights anyway. Must have been a difficult match to edit. Ought to be some kind of...
17 comments:

Delayed Twitter Coverage of Spain v. Germany - Now in Blogvision

›
So I didn’t get up this morning for the Spain v. Germany semifinal. A series of very late nights at work counselled against getting up even ...
8 comments:
Wednesday, 7 July 2010

It's just like watching Brazil

›
When I was a postgraduate student at Warwick, James Williams gave a paper on Spinoza and Henry Miller. I don't remember the main point o...
27 comments:

linking play

›
While the links have been quietly accumulating in the sidebar, I'd like to mention one site in particular, whose unflashy name, Must Rea...
1 comment:

Spain is dead, long live Spain

›
I've been surprised to find so little support for Spain among the rest of the Minus contributors and other friends. Partly this comes do...
2 comments:
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.