Social media continues to proliferate with hate, war, atrocities and stupidity. This is what the abundance of information, the dismissing of the barriers of time and space has brought to us. …

To a rational mind, smoking cigarettes is an idiotic, useless, nefarious, activity. Worst of all, it is counterintuitive — there is no health benefit, and in a world where health and regulation primes, it has social-exclusionary tendencies. From a white stick with a brown interior, it burns into a stick…

Joy is not a state of being, but a permanent quest of acquisition. Joy isn’t lived, it’s sought after. Joy is so fleeting you don’t realise you’re experiencing it, and the only thing you do notice is when you haven’t felt real joy in a long time. …

A blank page with no words haunt me The questions I never asked taunt me I pick fights with your ghost, and Look in the mirror and boast For I am a man now, beard and all Not the same boy, but just as tall I wore your shirt the other day A handsome de León you’d say We’d smoke a cigarette together Drink a beer or two and chit chatter You’d reminisce about a past before me Laugh and long for a path without me No doubt you were proud, but You had doubts never said aloud Your dreams were futuristic not realistic Your ideals were abstractions never actions You left for the sky without a good-bye In what we could have been is where you lie

It is a tumultuous time under here; below the surface where everything appears to be calm, the current is strong. Beneath the smiles and the occasional cries you may witness, lies a dynamic, a wrestling of thoughts that will not necessarily resolve themselves. …

On Tuesday 12 September 2023, Scotland ‘welcomed’ England at Hampden Park in a friendly to celebrate the 150 years since they first played each other in what was also the first officially recognised international game. To mark the occasion, England players warmed-up wearing a special edition shirt of minimalist design…

In football there are always two sets of stories, those that narrate what happens on the pitch and those that narrate what happens outside the pitch; maybe you could go as far as calling it two schools of thoughts. The first school, the Quantified school, is where students engage on…

bell hooks was an American author, theorist, educator, and social critic. She is best known for her writings on race, feminism, and class. The focus of hooks’ writing was to explore the intersectionality of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she described as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems…

What is neoliberalism and why does it matter in the football of today? Neoliberalism in crude terms is an economic system that interprets the material world through a free-market lens, and everything in that material world (humans, the environment, nature, society) is treated as a commodity that can be sold…