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Three Sided Football makes its first ever appearance in Spain this weekend (7 May), when Philosophy Football FC, the team which wears shirts adorned with the comments of famous philosophers about football, take on The XMen, made up of many of the foreign football correspondents in Madrid, including The Guardian’s Sid Lowe and Filippo Ricci of La Gazzetta dello Sport, and a mysterious team of

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Sid Lowe's Guardian interview with Xavi (Friday 11 February) was a fascinating discussion about Football philosophy. Two good philosophers in conversation. We look forward to meeting Sid Lowe on the pitch again in Madrid in May, when Philosophy Football embark on their 17th European Tour and take on Filippo Ricci's XMen, his squad of dissident football journalists.

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I can confirm the following signings in the January transfer window.Player From Henry: Free agentLorenzo: FiorentinaArchimedes: AEK AthensSocrates: SantosEmpedocles: FC Akragas We narrowly missed out on re-signing Albert Camus, currently caught up in North

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This World Cup has demonstrated the need for video technology to ensure justice takes place on the pitch. But how to persuade the suits at FIFA to make the wise move already taken by sports like tennis and cricket?I think there is only one thing for it. Referees, the arbiters of fair play, will now have to take what amounts to civil disobedience. When faced with difficult decisions, such as the

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Yesterday's worst ever World Cup defeat against a young German side has prompted a familiar debate on the failings of the national team. Not enough 'passion' and the shortcomings of a foreign coach are put forward as explanations yet again while the underlying reasons are obscured. Chris Waddle was right: England need more ideas; on coaching, bringing young players through earlier, on developing

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In my first World Cup Philosophy Football slot on the Vic Minett show on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire I talked about the classical philosophical connection between pain and pleasure - will it be more pain for England supporters going out in another penalty shoot-out, or the ecstasy of a last minute winner? I also discussed Fabio Capello's comparison of wine making - 'when you make wine you don't

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The Labour Party, represented by Philosophy Football FC, put up a better performance in Haggerston Park on May 2 than Gordon Brown's team on May 6, seeing off the Lib-Dem Tory Coalition in a three sided match played in great spirit. The match was reported in the Enfield Independent and the Hackney Gazette. Whitechapel Gallery have an excellent photo gallery of the event too. http://

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SUNDAY 2 MAY Haggerston Park, London E2As the election becomes set for a three way ‘photo finish’ teams representing the three main political parties will compete to win a 3-sided football match played on a hexagonal pitch at 3pm on Sunday 2 May in Haggerston Park, London E2.Representing the Labour Party are Philosophy Football FC; Conservative Futures and the University of the Arts form the

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Philosophy Football FC will take part in a unique three sided football match at Haggerston park east London on 2 May. Inspired by the Danish Situationist Asger Jorn, and developed further by the Luther Blissett group in Italy, the first organised three sided match in Britain was thought to have been played at the Glasgow anarchist summer school in 1993. The event in May will be the first of its

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10 October 2009 It started in October 1994, following a premiership match between Tottenham and Queens Park Rangers. I was at Mark Perryman’s house and we were talking over the details of a tedious 1-1 draw between his Tottenham and my QPR. Both veterans of Britain’s newly defunct and tiny communist party, we were looking for new political causes and an alternative to the corporate domination of

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1 June 2009 We will be attending the preview of Ken Loach's 'Looking For Eric', starring Eric Cantona, this Thursday at the Ritzy Cinema, Brixton, and naturally sitting in strict 4-2-3-1 formation.. Actually, I'm hoping to sign Eric for our return to the Grafton League next season. We will all be wearing the 'Sardines' shirt, recently re-issued by Philosophy Football here

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21 FebruaryThe recession seems to have brought little respite for football fans, with the new type of football owners showing little respect for some of the simple traditions of the beautiful game as they spend enormous amounts of cash on transfer fees, wages, and corporate facilities. Ticket prices remain high, with many owners seemingly oblivious to the plight of the ordinary fan. Some clubs

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Il Manifesto 27/06/08It is 1963 in Soviet Russia. A period of mild liberal reform, under Nikita Khrushchov’s leadership in the decade following the death of Stalin. Though the ‘swinging sixties’ hardly penetrated its barren cultural landscape, poets and writers were offering alternative voices and jazz was becoming popular. The previous year Alexander Solzhenitsin had published ‘One Day in the

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29 MayPhilosophy Football Fly to Zurich for international tournament commemorating May 68 on the eve of Euro 2008. Philosophy Football FC, the club sponsored by those ‘sporting outfitters of intellectual distinction’, whose shirts are adorned with the words of Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Bill Shankly, will be playing in a four team tournament in Zurich this Saturday (31 May) on the eve of

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In his recent article 'Power Games', the Financial Times political editor George Parker describes how 'Demon Eyes', the amateur football team composed of such rising New Labour luminaries as Tim Allan, a former Blair press officer, James Purnell, now Minister for Pensions, Andy Burnham, now Culture Minister, Dan Corry, the current head of Gordon Brown's policy unit, Ed Balls, Minister for

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Most agree that Fabio Capello is the man to revive England’s fortunes on the football pitch. His appeal is borne largely from has gone before: unlike his predecessors he is a 'winner’, a disciplinarian and someone who will stand up to the press. But are England supporters, players, WAGS (wives and girlfriends) and journalists really prepared for the cultural changes, technical sophistication and

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These are extraordinary times for Queens Park Rangers, the West London team, for so long the poor neighbours of Chelsea and currently lying in the bottom half of the Coca Cola Championship, or Serie B. In October, the club, deep in debt, was bought by Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone of Formula One and, just before Christmas, Lakshmi Mittal, the fifth richest man in the world, who is worth

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