newstatesman.com - <![CDATA[The Fan]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/columns/the-fan en http://images.newstatesman.com/users/avatars/.jpg http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/ <![CDATA[There’s no contest for the Cup Losers’ Cup]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2012/01/cup-league-channel-football http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2012/01/cup-league-channel-football Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:57:00 GMT Jon Bernstein Is there a more damning chant than "Thursday nights/Channel 5"?

]]> <![CDATA[When it comes to footie, Africa puts the Windies in the shade]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2012/02/west-africa-players-football http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2012/02/west-africa-players-football Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT Hunter Davies

]]> <![CDATA[Forget the Prem, eighth division is where it’s at]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2012/01/bognor-fans-another-football http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2012/01/bognor-fans-another-football Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:56:07 GMT Jon Bernstein Welcome to Champion Hill, London SE22 - home to Dulwich Hamlet Football Club.

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]]> <![CDATA[Diving players and fibbing fans: football’s a game of liars and cheats]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2012/01/fans-football-players-shirt http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2012/01/fans-football-players-shirt Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT Hunter Davies

]]> <![CDATA[Joking around the Christmas tree]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2011/12/play-football-lady-jokes http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2011/12/play-football-lady-jokes Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Hunter Davies

]]> <![CDATA[Facial hair and Formica – we’re halfway through the season]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2011/12/chelsea-season-column-half http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2011/12/chelsea-season-column-half Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Hunter Davies

]]> <![CDATA[Uruguay, the best of all countries great and small]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2011/12/uruguay-world-brazil-players http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2011/12/uruguay-world-brazil-players Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Hunter Davies

]]> <![CDATA[Cantona’s collar, Craig’s holler and Carragher’s lack of tatts]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2011/11/though-hair-game-fergie-united http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2011/11/though-hair-game-fergie-united Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Hunter Davies

]]> <![CDATA[There’s no corner of any foreign field that is at all England]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2011/11/england-spain-players-rubbish http://www.newstatesman.com/sport/2011/11/england-spain-players-rubbish Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Hunter Davies

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