1000 miles in 1000 hours: the athletic feat of 1809
Walking a mile in a hour sounds straightforward. Walking ten miles in ten hours sounds reasonably doable, even leisurely. How about walking a mile in each of one thousand successive…
Category: sport
Textspeak in the 18th Century – the case of Pot-8-Os
Once, Prince’s use of “U” for “you” and “2” for “to” (or “too” or “two”) was seen as an example of his supposed eccentricity. Now, of course, it is all…
From “The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter”, Colin Tudge
Perhaps this is why we feel so drawn to trees. Groves of redwoods and beeches are often compared to the naves of great cathedrals: the silence; the green, filtered, numinous…
Review of “Japanese Rules: Why the Japanese needed football and how they got it” by Sebastian Moffett. UCD AFC programme 2003
Archived here (and now here). I have observed before that I formerly wrote much more on sport than I do now… or am interested in now. Looking at this piece now, it seems…
Football movies (review of Goal! in SAU blog, September 2005)
Continuing my ressurection of my sport-themed writing, here is another piece from the Social Affairs Unit Blog. Ostensibly a review of Goal! this is really a mini-essay on football movies – I had written…
Football writing as travelogue: Jonathan Wilson’s Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Foorball
As I have previously observed , a lot of my writing was once about sport. Much of this was in the form of book reviews, and the odd film review. In 1998…
Glasgow Celtic Coma Scale. The Magazine 2000, Setanta.com around the same time…
. This originally appeared in a zine I briefly produced called The Magazine. It then appeared on the Setanta website when it mainly a text based thing. It has got…
