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Nel “Boxing Day” la capolista Chelsea è stata fermata sullo zero a zero da un combattivo Birmingham City che ha ottenuto il decimo risultato positivo mentre i londinesi, nelle varie competizioni, hanno vinto solo una delle ultime sette sfide. Il West Ham ( supporters in foto ) ha trovato, invece, sotto l’albero tre punti vitali contro il Portsmouth in una sfida tra squadre in grandissima difficoltà; la formazione di Zola ha giocato bene e meritato la posta piena. Il Man City del neo allenatore Mancini ha avuto la meglio sullo Stoke City mentre gli Spurs hanno pareggiato a reti bianche sull’ insidioso terreno del Fulham dove erano cadute Liverpool e Man U. In Scozia la neve, dopo avere falcidiato il programma delle serie minori, ha impedito la disputa di St. Mirren-Aberdeen. Proponiamo, infine, uno sguardo sulla “casual scene” grazie ad alcuni post tratti da un blog d’area.
INGHILTERRA: Premier League | |||||||
13:45 | Finale | Birmingham | 0 – 0 | Chelsea | (0 – 0) | ||
14:00 | Finale | Fulham | 0 – 0 | Tottenham | (0 – 0) | ||
14:00 | Finale | West Ham | 2 – 0 | Portsmouth | (1 – 0) | ||
15:00 | Finale | Burnley | 1 – 1 | Bolton | (0 – 1) | ||
16:00 | Finale | Manchester City | 2 – 0 | Stoke | (2 – 0) | ||
16:00 | Finale | Sunderland | 1 – 1 | Everton | (1 – 0) | ||
16:00 | Finale | Wigan | 1 – 1 | Blackburn | (0 – 1) | ||
18:30 | Finale | Liverpool | 2-0 | Wolves | (0-0 ) |
INGHILTERRA: Championship | |||||||
13:00 | Finale | Watford | 0 – 0 | Nottingham | (0 – 0) | ||
13:45 | Finale | Sheffield Wed | 2 – 2 | Newcastle | (1 – 2) | ||
14:00 | Finale | Cardiff | 0 – 1 | Plymouth | (0 – 0) | ||
14:00 | Finale | Crystal Palace | 3 – 1 | Ipswich | (1 – 1) | ||
14:00 | Finale | QPR | 2 – 1 | Bristol City | (2 – 0) | ||
16:00 | Finale | Coventry | 1 – 0 | Doncaster | (0 – 0) | ||
16:00 | Finale | Derby | 0 – 2 | Blackpool | (0 – 1) | ||
16:00 | Finale | Middlesbrough | 3 – 0 | Scunthorpe | (2 – 0) | ||
16:00 | Posticipata | Preston | – | Barnsley | |||
16:00 | Finale | Reading | 1 – 1 | Swansea | (1 – 1) | ||
16:00 | Finale | West Brom | 2 – 0 | Peterborough | (0 – 0) | ||
19:00 | Leicester | – | Sheffield Utd |
INGHILTERRA: League One | |||||||
13:30 | Finale | Gillingham | 0 – 1 | Brentford | (0 – 1) | ||
13:45 | Finale | Norwich | 2 – 0 | Millwall | (1 – 0) | ||
14:00 | Finale | Brighton | 0 – 0 | Leyton | (0 – 0) | ||
14:00 | Finale | Charlton | 2 – 2 | Swindon | (1 – 0) | ||
14:00 | Finale | Southend | 1 – 2 | Colchester | (0 – 0) | ||
16:00 | Posticipata | Bristol Rovers | – | Walsall | |||
16:00 | Posticipata | Carlisle | – | Huddersfield | |||
16:00 | Finale | Leeds | 3 – 1 | Hartlepool | (2 – 1) | ||
16:00 | Finale | Milton Keynes | 4 – 1 | Stockport | (2 – 0) | ||
16:00 | Posticipata | Oldham | – | Tranmere | |||
16:00 | Finale | Southampton | 3 – 1 | Exeter | (2 – 0) | ||
16:00 | Finale | Yeovil | 4 – 0 | Wycombe | (1 – 0) |
West Ham 2 – 0 Portsmouth
By Mark Ashenden
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West Ham hoisted themselves out of the bottom three with a hard-earned victory over fellow strugglers Portsmouth.
After a tense opening, Alessandro Diamanti scored from the spot for his third in as many games after Hayden Mullins fouled substitute Luis Jimenez.Pompey looked more lively in the second half with Kevin Boateng and the lively Frederic Piquionne both going close.But the Hammers held firm at the back and Radoslav Kovac nodded in Jimenez’s curling free-kick to secure the points.
( BBC Sport )
Birmingham 0 – 0 Chelsea
By Ian Hughes
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Jerome and Terry tussle as both sides find it hard to dominate
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Premier League leaders Chelsea failed to score for the first time in 34 games as they were frustrated by Birmingham.
Joe Hart made two stunning first-half saves to keep out Daniel Sturridge’s low shot and Frank Lampard’s drive.Alex smashed a 35-yard free-kick against the bar, while Sturridge steered Didier Drogba’s cross wide.Chucho Benitez had a goal ruled out for offside and Sebastian Larsson’s free-kick was saved by Petr Cech before Florent Malouda was sent off late on.The Frenchman was shown a second yellow card for a challenge on Stephen Carr and his early exit summed up Chelsea’s disappointment.The visitors created enough chances to win the game and will feel they have dropped two points – handing rivals Manchester United and Arsenal a chance to make up ground when they play on Sunday.
( BBC Sport )
St Mirren P-P Aberdeen
St Mirren’s Scottish Premier League Boxing Day match against Aberdeen has been postponed at 1230 GMT.
It was called off because heavy snow had made the surrounding area unsafe for traffic, with particular concerns about ice on St Mirren Park’s car park.The SPL requires member clubs to have undersoil heating at their grounds, so the match was likely to have gone ahead had there not been other concerns.No date has been announced for the re-arranged fixture.The SPL expects the four other matches to go ahead as scheduled on Saturday afternoon.
( BBC Sport )
SCOZIA: Premier League | |||||||
16:00 | Finale | Celtic | 2 – 0 | Hamilton | (1 – 0) | ||
16:00 | Finale | Dundee Utd | 0 – 0 | Kilmarnock | (0 – 0) | ||
16:00 | Finale | Falkirk | 0 – 1 | Hearts | (0 – 1) | ||
16:00 | Finale | Motherwell | 1 – 3 | ST. Johnstone | (1 – 0) | ||
16:00 | Posticipata | St. Mirren | – | Aberdeen |
A casual buy
( by “The Hovian” )
It’s Christmaaaaaaaaaaaas! To help cheer me up from supporting Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club, Santa is going to fill my stocking with – or I should say I will be putting my stockinged feet into – a new pair of these puppies. Adolf Dassler’s very own Samba blue/white suede trainers.I don’t own a lot of Herr Dassler’s training shoes, but I do own a LOT of other training shoes. What perfidious heresy is this, some might scream, whilst stamping their Trimm Trabbed feet?I have two good solid reasons for thinking like this: 1) Most adidas lines are cack and live off the rep of their few truly classic lines/colourways (see the sambas above). 2) In this game (the thing we call “casual”), one must not be seen to follow the herd too much. Every proper lad, boy, bonehead and chav (and his pitbull dog) owns adidas trainers, and not only that, they obsess and lavish so much love on ‘em I feel sorry for their wives and sweethearts, I really do.That said, some adidas shoes are just too good not to jump into with both feet (sorry), and the Samba blue/white suedeys are right up there with them. Just don’t expect me to take them to bed, wrap them lovingly in their box, or cry when I get a bit of shite on ‘em being escorted by the plod up to Elland Road or The Valley. I’ll be too busy knocking about in them, having fun.
I love pristine white training shoes. More exactly I love Diadora pristine white training shoes. Adidas retro trainers are obviously more popular (or suited more for the common sheeple), but if you want cool, individual, retro footwear then there’s none better than the Italians and Diadora. I mean, can you think of anyone cooler (apart from maybe Steve McQueen) than Bjorn Borg in his pomp? I can’t.You can buy this model here and here (I just have), and there’s also the later – and possibly more popular (a bad word for the truly discerning savant of all things casual) – Elite model. Think smart, look smart, don’t eat grass and go baa-aa, wear Diadora.
From the effortlessly cool Fila brand comes the retro-styled Matchday Cardigan in Navy with red and cream trim. Only one item can help set this look off – a pristine (as in never worn) plain white tee from M & S, never Primark, or “Primani” as my missus calls it as she visits the Western Road branch every week.Don’t even think about wearing it with nothing on underneath.Some types will wear the cardy with a white or navy Fila rollneck – too much label folks, and marks you out more as wannabe, i.e. a muggy bonehead, and definitely not football cool. Casual means understated, not bling.
I’m coming home again this Friday, so I’ll be in South Stand Block G for the Hartlepool game, and will be travelling to St Mary’s for the Southampton awayday (cannot fooking WAIT for that one!!).
As the UK is in the grip of another rather mild but wet Autumn, what should the well dressed aesthete be wearing to a miserable and uncovered Withdean Stadium? Easy, a Lyle & Scott Navy Windbreaker. You can buy one of these gorgeous garments here.The Lyle & Scott brand was immortalised by that unlikely icon of the football terraces – one Ronald Balfour “Ronnie” Corbett. But, their knitwear and outer clothing are classy British (Scottish actually) branded menswear, so you cannot look bad in any item they manufacture. Go forth and let your inner Ronnie out.
It is a widely acknowledged fact that casual culture started in Merseyside in the late 1970s. Hordes of Liverpool scallies followed their team on their successful runs in the major European football competitions around this time. Being true scousers many took the opportunity to raid the poorly secured continental clothes and sports shops. The scallies were the first to be seen wearing such sporting goods labels as Lacoste, Sergio Tacchini, Fila and Ellesse on the bleak football terraces of late seventies Britain.
Meanwhile, in the rest of the country, other young male football fans were either dressed in biker leathers, flares, club scarves, bobble hats and knitted tank tops (the regions); or, especially in the nation’s capital, bovver boots, donkey jackets, sta-prest trousers, braces and Fred Perry jumpers. London youth was immersed deep in the mod revival/skinhead movement, and the terraces of all the London clubs were full of unruly suedeheads and latter-day sawdust caesars.
When the cockneys saw the scousers at the match in their bright Italian sportswear, their “wedge” haircuts and adidas trainers, they most likely died laughing. The scallies saw the cockneys as muggy boneheads with no style. But, eventually the casual look caught on, especially when the London boys realised how easy it was for the effeminate looking northerners to evade the police – who were still out looking for shaven-headed louts in club colours on matchdays.So, the casual scene grew and all the mod and skin clothes were eventually thrown away or kept on the backs of older lads who would never look like the “facking poofs” in their Trim Trabbs and Fila Bj trackies. All the old clothing labels died out, all except one that is, and that label was Fred Perry. The Manchester version of the scouse scally was even named after Fred’s clothing line.The Fred Perry V-neck jumper in burgundy has outlived them all, it has seen the original 1960s mods come and go, the original skins, the new waves, the casuals, the Stone Island/Burberry clones of the 1990s, and can still be found on the backs of well dressed lads at the football or when they’re out on the tiles on a Saturday night.
If you own only one item of casual clothing, this is the one it should be. I’m a bit of a mod too, in clothes and musical taste, so how can I not own the only item that managed to straddle the gulf between so many antagonistic subcultures? What I’m saying here is that the Fred Perry V-neck is THE item of football fashion, but it is much more than that – it’s as much a British cultural icon as the Mini Cooper, or Big Ben, or Doctor Märtens’ famous boots, OI! That is why you’ll see old blokes, scruffy students, superannuated mods, and smart football dressers all wearing it. It’s a beaut.
I guess this is really about two casual items – a jacket and a book. Both concern the coolest man ever to have walked the planet, and easily the best dressed – Steve McQueen. There’s the arty Taschen photobook by William Claxton, full of iconic photographs of the effortlessly casual star, and what else would the King of Cool be wearing on the cover? Yep, his trusty Baracuta G9, collar up (never down, sweet Jesus!) and showing that unmistakable tartan lining.Modish, simple, no fuss, timeless. You cannot own a better item of clothing than this jacket. It’s not just about casual (although the Stone Island clones should buy this book and see how it should be done), it’s an everyman look.Now the caveat: don’t buy copies, some are good, some awful, but the original is the best – and those that know will know, it’s that obvious, trust me.
( “The Hovian” )
Si segnala, infine, la prossima uscita del libro scritto insieme agli alici Domenico Mungo e Vincenzo Abbatantuono, edito da “Boogaloo Publishing”. Ulteriori informazioni seguiranno non appena esso sarà disponibile, presumibilmente nel mese di gennaio.
Three Italian Gentlemen | ||||
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pag.180 | ||||
carta avorio; brossura fresata; copertina plastificata | ||||
Tre narratori anòmici, un’unica entità multiforme che si cela dietro uno pseudonimo palesemente preso a prestito dall’immaginario più “dandy” e teppisticamente elitarista della galassia del tifo estremista internazionale.
Three Italian Gentlemen sono: Domenico Mungo (Torino, 1971) insegnante di lettere, storia e teoria della comunicazione e dei movimenti di massa. Scrittore, autore di Sensomutanti (2003, Tirrenia Stampatori, rist. Boogaloo Publishing, 2009), Cani Sciolti (Bogaloo Publishing, 2008), saggista (Immersi nel Gioco- Conflitti del calcio, Casa degli Husher, 2010), poeta (Avevate Ragione Voi, Zona Editore, 2010). Documaker, ha realizzato per Current Sky 130 il Vanguard “Ultras nel bene e nel male”. Critico musicale e letterario (Rumore), consulente progetti culturali Città di Torino e Regione Piemonte, direttore artistico per Metropolis/Radar Torino Concerti per locali e festival. Anarchico, anticlericale, mai domo. Una compagna, due gatti, è un ultras della Fiorentina. Luca Tomaselli, alias “Mister Loyal”, nato a Torino il 1 dicembre Vincenzo Abbatantuono, barese ma residente a Torino, 40 anni portati con dignità malgrado l’incipiente pinguedine, gestisce www.ultrasblog.biz con Domenico Mungo e Simone Stara. Ultras honoris causa della Juventus,grande tifoso dell’Hibernian Fc, ha lavorato in questi anni come educatore e insegnante di Lettere. Moglie e due figlie, ha scritto “Un calcio in faccia, storie di adolescenti ultras” nel 2006 per La Meridiana. Ovviamente non indosserebbe mai un kilt viola, forse non ne indosserebbe mai uno. |
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