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With a reverence normally befitting minor deities, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been lauded from every angle this week after a spectacular overhead kick sunk a sorry England team. Zlatan has long maintained an enigmatic status in the mind of the European football fan. A supremely arrogant man who frequently refers to himself as ‘the world’s best player’, Ibrahimovic has, for many,...
Published: March 20, 2011
From an exterior perspective, a bespectacled former Italian international footballer and the Prime-minister of England share little in common. When David Cameron took over, custody of No. 10 riding high on his mandate for change, however, to this writer at least it held haunting resonance to a similar radical plan of reform set out by Fabio Capello two years before. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and...
Published: January 16, 2011
I remember it clearly. It was about three years ago whilst, as I am accustomed to do, I was browsing through the annuls of YouTube that I first heard the name. The video seemed fairly innocuous at first, just a small boy playing football, but this was no ordinary small boy. Most six-year-old boys struggle to get the ball off the ground, while Chera, at the same age scored at 30-yard free kick...
Published: November 20, 2010
I would call myself an objectivist, a realist, one in tune with the pigments of reality. I have a finger on the pulse of society. Yet, on Wednesday, I realised that for football it’s different. Once the referee’s whistle blows objectivity departs. I become a fan, a drone, a mindless patron of shirt and ball. Realism…… I don’t know the word. At the start of this season...