http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog Soccer as a second language Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:25:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Copyright © The Global Game 2011 admin@theglobalgame.com (The Global Game) admin@theglobalgame.com (The Global Game) 1440 http://www.theglobalgame.com/images/dembaksm.jpg http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog 144 144 Soccer as a second language The Global Game The Global Game admin@theglobalgame.com no no http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/03/literature-why-samuel-pepys-was-deemed-unfit-for-the-writers%c2%a0xi/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/03/literature-why-samuel-pepys-was-deemed-unfit-for-the-writers%c2%a0xi/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:25:05 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=1701 Samuel Pepys had too many appointments to indulge in the well-established practice of street soccer. But, one frosty morn in Jan 1665, he notices a street "full of footballs."]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2009/03/literature-why-samuel-pepys-was-deemed-unfit-for-the-writers%c2%a0xi/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/health-from-schizophrenia-to-social-anxiety-football-addresses-it-all/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/health-from-schizophrenia-to-social-anxiety-football-addresses-it-all/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:13:02 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=419 12 Jan 07), a London-based football league presents "regular, constant, holistic treatment" for those afflicted with mental health problems ranging from schizophrenia to social anxiety (Angus Watson, "More Than a Game," Financial Times, Mar 22). (Mar 25)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/health-from-schizophrenia-to-social-anxiety-football-addresses-it-all/feed/ 1 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/books-alan-sillitoe-channeling-the-angry-young-football-man/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/books-alan-sillitoe-channeling-the-angry-young-football-man/#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:18:58 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=402 Alan Sillitoe's work was on the syllabus in my short-story class as a college freshman. Naturally, the story considered most representative was "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner," consisting of a teenage cross-country runner's interior dialogues upon liberation each day from the Borstal fetters (“I'm a human being and I've got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me ...”). But a fresh assessment on Sillitoe's 80th birthday today suggests that the short story "The Match," which takes its tone from the terrace gloaming at Notts County's Meadow Lane, might be the best introduction. (Mar 4)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/03/books-alan-sillitoe-channeling-the-angry-young-football-man/feed/ 1 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/religion-holocaust-era-exile-haunts-chelsea-managers-father/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/religion-holocaust-era-exile-haunts-chelsea-managers-father/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:37:36 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=358 Jewish Chronicle of London, Meir Granat—father of Chelsea manager Avram Grant—details the displacement and death that met the Hasidic family in wartime Europe (Simon Griver, "Shoah Horrors That Haunt Avram Grant”). (Jan 11)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/religion-holocaust-era-exile-haunts-chelsea-managers-father/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/de-diddly-dum-de-dum-then-cue-result-from-stenhousemuir/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/de-diddly-dum-de-dum-then-cue-result-from-stenhousemuir/#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:40:38 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=349 Sports Report, celebrated its 60th anniversary on Jan 3. Recognition also goes to the Edinburgh inflections of James Alexander Gordon, who as part of the show has read the classified football results at 5 p.m. every Saturday since 1972 (see Andrew Baker, "Classified Football Results Make Music at BBC," Daily Telegraph, Jan 3). (Jan 6)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2008/01/de-diddly-dum-de-dum-then-cue-result-from-stenhousemuir/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/first-impressions-of-bloody-united/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/first-impressions-of-bloody-united/#comments Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:43:27 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=342 Stephen Merchant's BBC 6Music program Dec 30, the actor who inhabited Tony Blair on screen and David Frost on stage said he soon will take on the persona of Brian Clough in the forthcoming film The Damned United.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/first-impressions-of-bloody-united/feed/ 1 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/beckham-studies-the-graduate-seminar/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/beckham-studies-the-graduate-seminar/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:47:25 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=311 David Beckham's capacity to generate cultural comment (see Nov 20, Nov 7 and Jul 16 for three recent examples) and to bolster the CVs of tenure-track academics continues. (Dec 11)]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/beckham-studies-the-graduate-seminar/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/manchesters-kennedy-moment/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/manchesters-kennedy-moment/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:05:22 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=304 Manchester, England, Dec 7 | Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 6 Feb 1958 Munich airplane crash that killed 23, including eight Manchester United players, will incorporate the entire city and avoid commercial tie-ins, organizers have decided.]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/12/manchesters-kennedy-moment/feed/ 0 http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/11/round-ball-flat-art-british-museum-database-shows-football-in-mix-of-media/ http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/11/round-ball-flat-art-british-museum-database-shows-football-in-mix-of-media/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:33:38 +0000 John Turnbull http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/?p=292 With multimedia »]]> http://www.theglobalgame.com/blog/2007/11/round-ball-flat-art-british-museum-database-shows-football-in-mix-of-media/feed/ 0