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The Global Game The Global Game admin@theglobalgame.com No no http://www.theglobalgame.com/images/dembaksm.jpg http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog 144 144 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/in-atlanta-spreading-soccer-contagion-at-parade%c2%a0rest/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/in-atlanta-spreading-soccer-contagion-at-parade%c2%a0rest/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:58:39 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=728 Oct 4 | Ron Newman built the U.S. game in literal terms, calling on carpentry skills to construct goalposts out of discarded building materials. In Atlanta in 1967, he jumped off a Memorial Day float and kicked a ball to youngsters.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/10/in-atlanta-spreading-soccer-contagion-at-parade%c2%a0rest/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/09/islands-americas-internationalists-have-a-vague-idea-of-cuban-life/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/09/islands-americas-internationalists-have-a-vague-idea-of-cuban-life/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:00:33 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=585 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/09/islands-americas-internationalists-have-a-vague-idea-of-cuban-life/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/as-foretold-in-scripture-queen-of-the-south-4-aberdeen-3/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/as-foretold-in-scripture-queen-of-the-south-4-aberdeen-3/#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:34:33 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=439 Dumfries, Scotland, Apr 18 | "All our dreams are viable," ventures songwriter Chris Belford, launching into the refrain of the Queen of the South anthem. "We're the only team in the Bible." The strength of the connection to Jesus' prophecy about the "queen of the South" rising at judgment day (Matthew 12:42) is dubious, but Doonhamers' supporters, following the side's first berth in a Scottish Cup final, are convinced about the rest: "Something greater than Solomon is here!"]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/as-foretold-in-scripture-queen-of-the-south-4-aberdeen-3/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/history-were-paterson-fc-the-first-stateside-association-football-club/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/history-were-paterson-fc-the-first-stateside-association-football-club/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:04:15 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=437 Oneida Football Club of Boston, honored with an obelisk in Boston Common as "the first organized football club in the United States." While Oneida played one of the football codes—perhaps a soccer-rugby hybrid—beginning in 1862, photographic evidence offered by a descendant of a Paterson FC captain suggests that the New Jersey side, formed in 1880, staked claim early to playing by the Football Association rules established in London in 1863 (see also Mar 30). (Apr 16)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/04/history-were-paterson-fc-the-first-stateside-association-football-club/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/remembering-new-jerseys-immigrant-soccer-past/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/remembering-new-jerseys-immigrant-soccer-past/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:43:16 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=420 Newark, New Jersey, Mar 30 | At the start of its 13th season, MLS lacks a nuanced appreciation for history. But the sense of American soccer as a game among immigrant enclaves has been preserved, with regional focus, at Sport Clube Português and within a northeastern amateur league featuring divisions along ethnic lines (see New York Times coverage).]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/remembering-new-jerseys-immigrant-soccer-past/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/poetry-view-well-this-ball-the-present-of-your-lords/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/poetry-view-well-this-ball-the-present-of-your-lords/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:51:57 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=410 Matthew Concanen the Elder's 1720 canto describing a six-a-side football match in Dublin—at variance with a traditional view that only the frenzied folk football variety was contested at the time. The players "around the field in decent order stand ..." (Mar 13)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/poetry-view-well-this-ball-the-present-of-your-lords/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/for-centuries-life-has-had-its-uppies-and-downies/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/for-centuries-life-has-had-its-uppies-and-downies/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:41:06 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=406 Jedburgh, Scotland, Mar 12 | Hugh Hornby, author of a comprehensive account of Britain's 15 surviving festival football games—Uppies and Downies: The Extraordinary Football Games of Britain (English Heritage, 2008)—was busy signing books during the Jedburgh Ba' Game on Feb 14, but says that the Uppies "may have prevailed by an odd hail." That he terms the annual rituals "mass-participation games" indicates that the emphasis is on taking part, not the result. With 27-minute podcast.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/for-centuries-life-has-had-its-uppies-and-downies/feed/ 26:50 Review of Hugh Hornby, Uppies and Downies: The Extraordinary Football Games of Britain, ed. Simon Inglis, Played in Britain (London: English Heritage, 2008). Pp. 188, ... Review of Hugh Hornby, Uppies and Downies: The Extraordinary Football Games of Britain, ed. Simon Inglis, Played in Britain (London: English Heritage, 2008). Pp. 188, bibliography, calendar of games, illustrations, maps. pound;16.99 (paper). ISBN 978-1-9056246-4-5. Jedburgh, Scotland #124; Modern football match reports, following accepted journalistic practice, place emphasis on the final score. Try as we might in interviews with participants and by accessing online newspaper accounts of the Feb 14 Jethart (Jedburgh) Ba' Gamemdash;the annual revival of a mass-participation football match with several centuries' provenancemdash;we could not discover, with absolute certainty, who won. British Patheacute; newsreels offered valuable sources for Hornby's accounts of Shrovetide games. Patheacute; cameras filmed the Alnwick, Northumberland, game as early as 1922, and the film from this 1936 edition survived a cameraman's misfortune. According to Hornby's research, the photographer became involved in the mecirc;leacute;e and picked himself up "a sadder and wiser man." (www.britishpathe.com) Hugh Hornby, author of the comprehensive account of Britain's 15 surviving festival football games (see schedule), was busy signing books, but says that the Uppies may have prevailed "by an odd hail." Tam Miller, who started participating years ago in a youth version of the Jedburgh Candlemas game, said he had to check a local newspaper for results in Jedburgh and in games in nearby Scottish Border towns, Hobkirk and Ancrum. But he does not name the victors, suggesting that participation matters more than outcome. HornbyHornby advocates on behalf of these distinctive contests, grouped broadly under the heading "folk football" or "Shrovetide football." In the book's conclusion he suggests adding a bank holiday to mark Shrove Tuesday and to help revive interest in the mass-participation football forms. And following the mission of the Played in Britain series, which in past volumes has treated Britain's swimming centers and the sporting edifices of Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester, Hornby wants to memorialize the sites of the more than 80 such games now extinct. "I've been full-time on the trail of these elusive games for about two, three years," Hornby says in a Feb 21 podcast. "I've spent many cold hours in fields and on the streets following these games, but I have to say I don't regret any of that time. It's endlessly fascinating, and they're all quite different in their own way." The former curator of the National Football Museum in Preston, in George Plimpton style, has participated in many scrums himself, sometimes drawn into the fray as a bystandermdash;he joined in at Denholm, another Scottish Border town, this season. The games share common features, but, as Hornby writes, each possesses its own character, with different ritualistic elements and peculiarities in shape and style of ball, modes of hailing (scoring), terrain and tactics. Although in a few cases individuals compete for themselves, most of the time players are grouped onto two sides: Uppies or Downies (with multiple variations in name), town or country, married or single. In harbor villages, such as in Kirkwall, in the Orkney Islands, the Uppie represents the part of town "up" from the harbor. In river towns, such as Jedburgh, Uppies come from the upstream section of the prevailing water feature, with accommodation made in modern times for inequalities in population or the establishment of regional hospitalsmdash;meaning that locals tend to be born in the same place. (ldquo;I was born in Jedburgh as an Uppie and will die an Uppie," Miller proclaims.) Unlike association football, teams must score in their own goals, whether by touching the ball to a stone plinth, rolling the ball across a road or carrying the ball across a boundary: "The balls are the spoils of war," writes Hornby, "to be brought home in triumph." In Derby, one... History,amp;,Origins,,Language,amp;,Literature,,Podcast,,Scotland The Global Game no No http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/history-in-hard-stone-ancient-ball-playing-exploits-remain/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/history-in-hard-stone-ancient-ball-playing-exploits-remain/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:53:07 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=405 The Ancient Americas”) and Washington, D.C. (“Exploring the Early Americas”), feature artifacts of ball-playing in Mesoamerican cultures as part of larger surveys. (Mar 6)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/history-in-hard-stone-ancient-ball-playing-exploits-remain/feed/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/a-multihued-archipelago-tuned-to-soccers-harmonics/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/a-multihued-archipelago-tuned-to-soccers-harmonics/#comments Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:52:52 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=395 Honolulu, Feb 29 | Gamba Osaka's 6–1 victory over Houston Dynamo in the Pan-Pacific Soccer Championships final added another jot to the history of the Japanese on the Hawaiian Islands—a history that spans three centuries and that has helped create a multicultural population well-suited to building soccer from the grassroots.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/02/a-multihued-archipelago-tuned-to-soccers-harmonics/feed/