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1. Photographer Przemek Niciejewski releases new book of fans at matches ...
(Stories)
Going To The Match includes 130 colour photographs of 80 grounds around Europe, with the focus on supporters at all levels of the game 5 January ~ Photographer Przemek Niciejewski has released a ...
Created on 05 January 2017
2. The Greatest Comeback: From genocide to football glory by David Bolchover
(Managers)
... Austria in 1938, after a spell coaching in the Netherlands, reflects an inability to do without the game – but subject to the fates which engulfed European Jews in the first half of the last century. And ...
Created on 19 July 2017
3. Photos of football from Polish villages
(May 2016)
10 May ~ Photographer Przemek Niciejewski has been photographing football around Europe for many years, from the biggest matches to non-League. Last year he released a book of images taken following his ...
Created on 10 May 2016
4. Erbstein
(Managers)
... 30 years ahead of its time,” says one Sardinian journalist whose father was in the Cagliari youth team while Erbstein was manager there. Sadly, like so many other Jews, Erbstein spent all too much of ...
Created on 09 June 2015
5. Vocabulary test
(Race)
... London. Others, including some Jewish Spurs fans, argue the use of the Y-word is unjustified. It remains deeply offensive to Jews throughout the country, while non-Jewish Spurs fans cannot reclaim a word ...
Created on 01 December 2013
6. Does Your Rabbi Know 
You're Here?
(General)
... , he said he'd done it "to show the world Jews have guts". Almost no one ran with that implausible claim, except the great Jewish comedian Lenny Bruce, who half-joked that "even the shot was Jewish – th ...
Created on 07 February 2013
7. Nottingham Forest 2 Ipswich Town 0
(Match of the month)
...  attempting to shrug it off, as if he's been made to jog around the entire school field in his vest and pants for forgetting his boots.   It's not long before the first proper chance is taken, when Ra ...
Created on 21 December 2010
8. Promised Land
(Clubs)
... figures like chairman Manny Cussins, eventually reaching the point where one club director would remark: "There'd be no Leeds Utd without the Jews." Yet anti-Semitism was never quite extinguished, ...
Created on 21 April 2010
9. Trautmann’s Journey
(Players)
... Jews massacred, among many other horrors. After he joined up, he saw his family in Bremen only once until he returned from Britain – as a different man – in 1949. Small wonder their relations were awkward. ...
Created on 21 April 2010
10. When Friday Comes
(International )
... Kurds, Shias and Sunnis come together to play for Iraq, Fatah and Hamas supporters for Palestine (when they are allowed to), and even Arabs and Jews in Israeli teams. It is the fans, boxed in by religion, ...
Created on 17 January 2008
11. Rock and a hard place
(Players)
... are political reasons for this,” he told the paper Bild. “Everyone knows I’m a German-Iranian.” The dual national’s decision drew sharp criticism from the Central Council of Jews in Germany, who accused ...
Created on 10 December 2007
12. Letters, WSC 247
(Readers' letters)
... rid of the Yids”, and triumphantly declaring that “Tottenham’s going to Auschwitz; Hitler’s going to gas them again”. The chanting was not restricted to the condemnation of Jews; their songs covered a ...
Created on 14 September 2007
13. Goodwill hunting
(Euro 2008)
... murder and indignity in the occupied territories. It is an insult to Jews who have lost loved ones to the suicide bombers and who live in existential fear of their hostile neighbours.” This echoed feelings ...
Created on 14 May 2007
14. Toto Fiasco
(Players)
... justice. The people in the government have got to understand that Israel is the land of the Jews and not of the police.” Tamuz is yet to respond, but has kept on saying that he would do anything to play ...
Created on 14 April 2007
15. The 'Y' word
(Race)
... Tottenham and was also part of a reaction to the large numbers of Jews who came to this country after the Second World War. I’ve always laughed inwardly at the belief many Arsenal fans have that Spurs ...
Created on 14 April 2006
16. Time's up for dirty Den
(Crowd control & policing)
... against Ajax (a club regarded as having a partly Jewish identity) include “Hamas, Hamas, The Jews aan het gas” and a shushing sound supposed to imitate escaping gas. The Dutch FA, backed by politicians ...
Created on 14 December 2004
17. Arab state
(Europe)
Ori Lewis reports on the day that an Arab-Israeli side from a town of less than 22,000 people won the national cup and qualified for Europe, thus making a bold statement about uniting Arabs and Jews in ...
Created on 14 July 2004
18. Israel
(Letter from...)
... was decided on goal difference. While in most walks of life relations between Jews and Arabs have cooled markedly following the latest round of violence, one of the few real exceptions has been in and ...
Created on 14 August 2003
19. Brand aid
(Webwatch)
... figure in the changing room by airing the Jewson League club’s second string’s dirty laundry to a billion potential readers. He doesn’t think much of the opposition either. “Port makeshift centre forward ...
Created on 14 February 2002
20. Otherwise occupied
(International football)
... oes things to you that a blitz can’t. There’s apparently some debate now as to how much hardship the Dutch actually put up with under the Nazis, which I find hard to understand. Of the 140,000 Jews in  ...
Created on 14 August 2001

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