Exporting The Game

Part 3 of the series 'Ode to a bygone era' has now been published on Attempting Thought.

'Exporting The Game' has a look at some of the early pioneers of the sport who took football from its origins in the UK to the four corners of the globe.

Ode to a bygone era: Part one

Ode to a bygone era is a new 5 part series on Attempting Thought that looks at the beautiful game before 1902.

Part one focuses on the transition from an amateur based game to the professional one that we know today.

Calcio and the Mezzogiorno

The last team from the south of Italy to win Serie A was Napoli in 1990. Is this gap in success the exception, or the rule?

Calcio and the Mezzogiorno explores southern Italian success in Serie A as well as the problems of the south in general.

Read it here.