Salutations to all fellow ground-hoppers and football enthusiasts. It has been some time since I have been trapped in the barren wastelands of my ‘home’ county of Essex. There is little on offer here other than shops, the sickening embodiment of neo-liberal capitalism, the odd Costa Coffee, since independent cafes and Caffe Nero seem sparse …
Gary Lineker May Have Started the Revolution, But it Won’t End with Him
For those of you who have been living under a rock this past week or so, it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster at the BBC. It all started sometime last week, as, in their latest attempt to distract the general public from the “cozzie livs” crisis, the never-ending series of strikes, the collapse of …
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Football in 2023: An Essay
In terms of football, the end of 2022 had a certain romance to it. Against a backdrop of corruption, bribery, and mistreatment of migrant workers, Lionel Messi and Argentina won the World Cup. They beat the odds, they beat the machine of France, and gave us a reminder that there is still a place for …
BattleBots: Champions Review
Well, here we are, folks. Five episodes of glorious metal-on-metal, rough-and-tumble action has brought us to this moment. The field has been whittled down to eight remaining bots; the three champions that qualified automatically, and the five bots that had to beat the best to join them. In BattleBots’ own take on the classic Robot …
BattleBots: Sin City Slugfest – Episode 5 Review
Howdy-do everyone, and welcome to the fifth installment of BattleBots: Sin City Slugfest, coming at you on a ludicrously overdue date, just as the new season is about to start. I could make a whole series of excuses surrounding the holidays, mental health, general business, but really this whole escapade has been a bit of …
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BattleBots: Sin City Slugfest: Episode 4 Review
Hello everyone! It sure has been another hot minute since one of these posts came out! It’s sticking to tradition if nothing else, as an excuse for not sticking to the schedule. Anyway, it’s nearly Christmas so I thought I would deliver a treat, the long-awaited review of episode 4 of BattleBots: Sin City Slugfest …
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BattleBots: Sin City Slugfest – Episode 3 Review
Hello everybody! It’s episode three! They say that three is a magic number, and if you needed any conclusive evidence of it, here it is, in the form of BattleBots: Sin City Slugfest! The first two episodes have been quite the whirlwind and this week slows down not by one iota. As we still recover …
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BattleBots: Sin City Slugfest – Episode 2 Review
Hello everyone! How are we all doing today? Suitably buzzing? Indifferent? Depressed because the societal systems in which we live have condemned us to a life of anonymity and struggling to pay the rent because the top 1% keep taking all of our income? Well, whatever your mood, hopefully you’re here to enjoy some more …
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BattleBots: Sin City Slugfest: Episode 1 Review
Good afternoon, everyone! It’s certainly been a hot minute, hasn’t it? How are we all doing? All good? Doing our best do ignore all of the sh*t that’s going on in the world right now and turning to killer robots destroying each other as comfort? High fives all round! Yes, it’s certainly been a while …
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A Brief History of the Artemio Franchi Trophy
On Wednesday the first of June at Wembley Stadium, Argentina and Italy will go head-to-head in the first of what UEFA and CONMEBOL hope to be three editions of the CONMEBOL-UEFA Cup of Champions, or the Finalissima, as it is more likely to be known as. Argentina, having triumphed over Brazil to win the 2021 …
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The Robot Soccer League 