Football
R.I.P. Malcolm Allison
A short excerpt from my upcoming memoir, Boy About Town, this part about following Crystal Palace FC: The first year I started going to the Palace on my own, the...
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October 15, 2010
Final Thoughts (or, What do we do with the rest of our summer?)
Spain deserved to win Holland deserved to lose Brazil deserved to lose to Holland, too (Since when and why did two of the world’s most talented footballing nations decide to...
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July 14, 2010
Vuvuzuela Fever
Well it’s Father’s Day, and what better day to be proud of my sons. Anyone knows 14-yr old Campbell, they’ll know he’s a born artist and a natural comic. When...
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June 20, 2010
Americans’ Tolerance for World Cup Soccer: High?
The graph I posted Friday, in the previous post, courtesy of my son Campbell and his Internet hunting, was humorous. It may be true of a percentage of the population....
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June 20, 2010
Americans’ Tolerance for World Cup Soccer: Low?
There’s been an absence of proper posts of late, for which I somewhat apologize. I’m busy editing a larger piece of work, the World Cup takes up every spare moment,...
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June 18, 2010
This one goes out to the one I love…
(I thought I had posted this on Sunday… looks like I only saved it as a draft. Hey, it’s never too late. Congrats to Crystal Palace for staying up. We...
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May 4, 2010
Great British Memories (Notes from a return home)
#1 THE HOLMESDALE FINDS ITS VOICE (AND TONY REDISCOVERS HIS PASSION) Living in the States, I can pretend I don’t really care about Crystal Palace FC any more. After all,...
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April 8, 2010
London 0, Hull 4
If I was a shopkeeper in a certain part of East Yorkshire, this is the album I would have in my window today. Arsenal, Spurs, Fulham and now West Ham....
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October 20, 2008
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