Football football football! I love the World Cup. I love the games, I love the endless geeky conversations about performances, what Rooney's best position is, whether Spain will choke, how good those North Koreans were, and what I love the most is statistics, statistics, statistics. I could go over them for hours and hours. I like reading every column inch I can find on the things, right down to the design and manufacture of the Jabulani ball (which is rubbish, apparently) and those buzzy things drowning out crowd noise, as well as going over the passing stats, the assist stats, the possession stats, everything.
Now I discover Mark Fisher, aka Kpunk, is blogging the World Cup with a few other distinguished bloggers. This is exactly the sort of writing I want about football. Engaged, knowledgeable, thoughtful. And written by teachers and writers of philosophy, politics and critical theory! Excellent! I recommend it for anyone. Anyone.
Me
- Mark
- I am writing a PhD at the University of Glasgow entitled "The Poetics of Time in Contemporary Literature". My writing has been published in Type Review, Dancehall, Puffin Review and TheState. I review books for Gutter and The List. I am also an editor and reviewer at the Glasgow Review of Books.
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