cultural relatives
Cultural Relatives: The Abramovich Era & The Global Financial Crisis
Football, and the world in which it exists, have changed dramatically over the past 20 years. The '90s are long gone and so too is our innocence.
Cultural Relatives: Roy Keane & Tom Brady
Keane and Brady must have learnt to channel discomfort. Perhaps, when you're getting so fucked over inside, you look at the straightforward slings and arrows of the outside world and think, 'that's not much.'
Cultural Relatives: Shit Stadiums and Old Gamblers
A mathematical approach makes sense in poker, just as it makes sense when ensuring fans will always be able to find a toilet at Wembley – but it doesn't create atmosphere.
Cultural Relatives: Wenger's Invincibles & Pro Evo
What follows the attainment of perfection? Restless meddling.
Cultural Relatives: Paul Scholes & Ray Allen
To drown out everything at the crucial moment is perhaps only possible when you drown out everything every day of your life. Paul Scholes and Ray Allen seemed know this.
Cultural Relatives: Eminem & Football's Bad Boys
Roy Keane did not give a fuck what you thought about how he was. Nor Di Canio, nor Eminem. They gave you enough space to respect their commitment to the game and, after that, your opinions were moot.
Cultural Relatives: Ruud Gullit & the Brains of the Nineties
English footballers are not cool, so the Premier League needed some imported charisma to bolster its ranks. Ruud Gullit epitomised this, but his significance goes far beyond mere cool.
Cultural Relatives: Alan Shearer & Space Jam | US | Translation
Battered and bruised from their 1995-96 title heartbreak, Newcastle United must have felt stricken. Then a superstar was introduced to the fold. Ladies and gentlemen... Alan Shearer.
Cultural Relatives: Big Sam's Bolton & Dirty Sanchez
Have you ever considered the relationship between Sam Allardyce's all-star Bolton Wanderers side and the exploits of MTV's Dirty Sanchez 'crew'? Prepare to look at the world very differently.