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• Fifty Shades of Rust: The Charm of Andrea Pirlo’s Late Style

  

  For Samuel, because he askedLook at the little half-pint. Words seem impossible – where to find them, how to pronounce them. Andrea Pirlo is a footballing rebel... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2015 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Juventus by Colors (A Feature for Spiel)

  

  Juventus by Colors—a history of the team in the 1990s at 570 nanometers, where the Lada 1200 is scuttling around in its gloriously bright paint and... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2013 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Juventus by Colors (A Feature for Spiel)

  

  Juventus by Colors—a history of the team in the 1990s at 570 nanometers, where the Lada 1200 is scuttling around in its gloriously bright paint and... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2013 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• The Breakthrough Plan. Walcott at the Rapids

  

  A new issue of our Field Notes, on Theo Walcott and the keepers of the Old West. Read it here.The blow strikes as a sign on the landscape showing you that it’s... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2013 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• The Breakthrough Plan (Walcott at the Rapids)

  

  A new issue of our Field Notes, on Theo Walcott and the keepers of the Old West. Read it here.The blow strikes as a sign on the landscape showing you that it’s... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2013 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Russian Still-Life with Marauding Bolsheviks

  

  After Russia 4-1 Czech Republic, group stage.This photograph by Leonid Andreyev, the writer and illustrator of countless Chekhov editions, comes from ‘silver... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Football and Design of Germany

  

  After Germany 1-0 Portugal, group stage.Aesthetically, Germany is still pursuing in football the ideals of Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus—the elimination of... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• News from the Giro Del Trentino

  

  The juxtaposition of two inaccessible passes, the Giants of the Pordoi whose timeless landscape is photographed above and the Punta Veleno (literally... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Pickpockets (Rennes 0-2 Montpellier)

  

  Erotic transport? No, as everybody was struggling to keep his balance, even though they all looked a foot taller than in the Italian league. Uncanny correctness? Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Seahorses (Hibernian 4-0 Dunfermline)

  

  By a stroke of luck I have seen it! And by ‘that’ I mean the first fifteen minutes of this game—rampant, explosive, suggestive of choral and sculptured... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Travel Sketches (Aston Villa 1-1 Tottenham)

  

  Some insights on that blend of poetry and hysteria that is Tottenham football, a cross of hubris and sorrow. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Skin-Deep Rehearsals (Inter 4-2 Milan)

  

  Inspired by the great cartoonist J. J. Grandville, who depicted people with heads of animals and birds, French filmaker Georges Franju decided to open his 1963... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• A Momentary Lapse of Reason in Florence

  

  One slip, and down the hole we fall It seems to take no time at all A momentary lapse of reason That binds a life for life A small regret, you won’t forget,... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• A Quixotic Waxwing, Or Rafael Nadal in Spain

  

  Irecently looked up the final of the Barcelona Open, and I loved it considerably more than the previous match between Nadal and Djokovic in Montecarlo, which... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• On The Threshold (City 1-0 Man Utd)

  

  The header that organizes, classifies, and orders is not the favored footballing organ of a time that prefers passing. The gradually growing hegemony of... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2012 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Russian Heteronyms (Zenit 2-1 Dynamo)

  

  Andy Warhol, Hammer and Sickle, 1976Zenit’s victory in the Russian league is not a prophetic dream of scientific advancement, but neither it describes, as you... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2012 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Editor’s Picks: Fear, Hype, and Mourning

  

  Koloman Moser, April, or Impudent Weather, 1903Poetry tears through the footballing life like a whirlwind. Somebody resorts to it as a spiritual return to the... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2012 CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Air Defense Day, Or Chelsea at Camp Nou/ I.

  

  I would not find it anachronistic if Pep Guardiola were in football still as an active player; maybe his late style would be curiously futuristic, or perhaps... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Sevastopol, Or Chelsea at Camp Nou/ II.

  

  At the height of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854-55), during the Crimean War, the Russians had to sink their entire fleet to prevent it from falling into the hand... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2012 HISTORY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Character-Acting and Buzzing in Sports

  

  Charles Henry Bennett, A Fool's CapLiving and working off the coast of the Hudson River as I do, the horizon line is never far away, and it is easy to become... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2012 PHILOSOPHY, SELF EXPRESSION, SOCCER, SPORTS