Pitch Invasion

This site aims to explore football supporter culture, politics and passion in all their forms. Pitchinvasion.net is a home for original writing on these topics, and culls from the web news, video and images about fans around the world. [..]

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Last Updated
December 4, 2008 12:12 EST
Added
June 18, 2007

September 17, 2008

Rumours of Our Demise Have Been Exaggerated

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Pitch Invasion still exists, despite the recent lack of updates. A myriad of events, including moving homes, being out of town and having no internet access at home has meant I've fallen way behind on updating and responding to email. I'll start working through the backlog shortly. Normal service will be resumed in the coming days, [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: About this site, Culture, pitch invasion

August 29, 2008

The Rise and Fall of Cobh Ramblers

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The year 2008 will not be looked back upon with fond memories for anyone connected to Cobh Ramblers of Ireland's Premier Division. After a magnificent 2007, events off the pitch have been both comical and catastrophic for the team that produced Roy Keane. Click to continue reading...
Pitch Invasion @ 08:31 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Cobh Ramblers, Culture, Lead Story, Roy Keane, ireland, pitch

August 25, 2008

Photo Occasional | Újpest Ultras

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Tags: Culture, Photography, Ujpest

The Anorak World of the Unibond Northern Premier League

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Football is falling out of our every orifice as the new season arrives, but Chris Taylor suggests you delve in to the murky, anorak wearing world of the non-leagues. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Anorak, Culture, Lead Story, Non-League

August 20, 2008

Group Harmony: Japan’s Fan Culture

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From the multitude of unofficial fan clubs that crowd the terraces to the carefully choreographed chants that ring out for ninety minutes, J. League fans have arguably borrowed as heavily from their native baseball league as they have from European and South American football culture. Michael Tuckerman explains. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Chants, Culture, J League, J-League, Lead Story, South American Football, Urawa Reds, football culture, japan

August 19, 2008

Extra Time: European Football’s Battle With The Time Zone

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It may seem daft or pretentious to think of something like the time of day when talking about football. Surely it doesn't matter when the game is played -- it should just sit there like a one-size-fits-all, universal absolute. Yet the circumstance of how and when we watch football can influence what we take from it. Click to continue reading...
Pitch Invasion @ 08:33 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Culture, English Premier League, Lead Story

August 18, 2008

The Sweeper (August 18)

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Did you know Didier Drogba is Flo-Jo's doppelganger? Just add nails. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Culture, Links, drogba

The First International Goalscorer

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Who was the first man to score a goal in the history of international football? The answer to every quizmaster's favourite fantasy - a question shrouded in the mists of obscurity - is far more than a gold plated nugget of football trivia. Identifying who this long-forgotten individual is reveals much about the social context of organised football in its earliest years. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Culture, Fantasy, Football trivia, International football, Lead Story, William Kenyon-Slaney, nugget

August 13, 2008

Profligacy and Olympic Soccer

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Jennifer Doyle finds herself mulling over the way the word "profligacy" was used in FIFA's summary of Nigeria's last Olympic soccer game. Click to continue reading...
Pitch Invasion @ 09:13 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Culture, Lead Story, Nigeria, Olympic Soccer, Olympic football, Women's Football, jennifer doyle

August 9, 2008

The Sweeper (August 9)

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Thanks for the feedback about the Daily Sweeper. I'm glad many of you have enjoyed it! It will now be a feature 3-4 times a week, rounding up the most interesting stories out there. Photo Daily will be taken out and live a separate existence. Right then. After a summer of increasingly tedious transfer tittle-tattle, [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Culture, Links, photo

August 8, 2008

A Call for Contributors

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Pitch Invasion is once again looking for regular or occasional contributors. Please drop a line to tom [at] pitchinvasion.net if interested; including a story idea or two is always a good idea. I also wanted to see what you, dear reader, thought of the Daily Sweeper we ran for the past few weeks. Did you enjoy [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: About this site, Culture, pitch invasion

August 6, 2008

Olympic Women’s Football: Day One

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Jennifer Doyle reviews the first day's action from the Olympic women's soccer tournament, and finds some fluid play and shaggy haircuts. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Culture, Olympic Games, Women's Football, jennifer doyle

August 4, 2008

The Daily Sweeper (August 4)

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North America Things are very bad in LaLaLand GM Alexi Lalas and the struggling LA Galaxy (winless in seven games) may well be parting ways, according to Greg Lalas: "A source close to Major League Soccer's glamour franchise tells me that Tim Leiweke, president and CEO of Anschutz Entertainment Group, which owns the Galaxy, made [. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Alexi Lalas, Culture, Greg Lalas, LA Galaxy, Links, Major League Soccer, North America, Tim Leiweke, franchise

August 1, 2008

The Daily Sweeper (August 1)

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Let's hope the FA throw the book at Joey Barton, if only to keep him on the sidelines and off our televisions for a while. Click to continue reading...
Pitch Invasion @ 11:46 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Culture, Joey Barton, Links, sidelines

A Season of Sussex Soccer

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Grassroots football in England is captured in a new book looking at the trials and tribulations of sixty clubs across the county of Sussex over a season. Click to continue reading...
Pitch Invasion @ 08:06 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Culture, David Bauckham, Eastbourne, Grassroots football, Lead Story, Lewes, Sussex, Terry Buckman