Cigarette Cards Featuring Illustrated Mascots Of England’s Greatest Clubs. Got It Got It Need It We’ve hit the mother lode, thanks to KCKRS reader Kristine, and now have a vast image collection of early 20th century English cigarette cards at our disposal. To start you off, we thought we’d share a few of the best team-centric cards (as opposed to the individual player versions) featuring illustrations of club mascots. Cigarette cards were the first trading cards, issued by tobacco companies in packs of cigarettes as early as the 1870s. The most famous example of a cigarette card is the Honus Wagner American Tobacco Company card that sold for a record $2.8 million in 2007.
English companies began issuing football-themed series in the 1880s. We’re not clear on the actual year of these cards, but they’re definitely from the pre-WWII era. The False 9.
The Illustrated Ray Hudson. Round thoughts » on the beautiful game. Historic Soccer Videos and DVDs. Nutmeg Radio. Net Losses - Al Jazeera Correspondent. English football clubs were once at the centre of their communities, but that spirit is eroding in Britain's top flight football. Liverpool FC's anthem is You'll Never Walk Alone - but has this franchise left their fans behind? A generation who grew up watching football in the 1970s and 1980s now feels alienated by the clubs they followed as children. The instinctive connection between the terraces and the players has gone.
A football ground used to be the centre of a community. Now it is just another out-of-town shopping mall. The Premier League is the self-styled "biggest league in the world", but most top clubs are in debt, over-charging their fans for tickets and hoping for a Gulf petro-dollar bail-out. What has happened to the beauty of the beautiful game in Britain? By Andrew Richardson Little has changed around Liverpool's Anfield Stadium in my lifetime. But that game we all go to watch has changed beyond recognition. Historically, football was all about the working man.
On Football - Analysis for the discerning fan. Chimu Solutions. TheEndline.com. U-S-A! U-S-A! News. A fly walks round a football. What makes a perfect football? Anyone who plays or simply watches the game could quickly list the qualities. The ball must be perfectly round and retain its shape and internal pressure after a lot of physical abuse. It should be bouncy, but not too lively when kicked or headed and it must not absorb water. And finally it should move about in a pacey manner when passed between the players and be capable of impressive turns of speed for shots at goal. This last point may seem trivial: surely footballs go faster the harder they're kicked?
Flow separation and the drag crisis The image below shows a model ball mounted in a wind tunnel. Flow separation and transition points for a model ball in a wind tunnel. At very low speeds the flow follows the surface of the ball intimately but as the speed is increased, as in the image on the left, the flow begins to break away at the aptly named separation points (indicated by the arrows). Here is the density of air, Knowing the variation of Enter the fly. Tackling The Absurd Ascent Of The Manager | Pitch Invasion - A Blog Exploring Soccer Around The World.
With The Manager: The Absurd Ascent of the Most Important Man in Football, Barney Ronay has put together what should be a very interesting book on the evolution of the role of the manager in football. Well, English football anyway: Johnny Foreigner doesn’t really get a look-in unless he’s followed Arsene Wenger and washed up on England’s shores.
However, because there is so much interesting material here, the monocultural perspective is disappointing, but ultimately forgivable. Nor can one complain about the way the material has been stitched together. It’s structured in a vaguely chronological fashion, moving from the late 19th century when the earliest sideline characters appeared (having a very different demeanor and responsibilities to today’s bosses), through to the era of Jose Mourinho and company. What gives the book its potential is that the author has a better-than-average sense of history, and a knack for relating sports to the zeitgeist of the times. Terminology | Fútbol for Gringos.