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A More Splendid Life: Soccer puritanism and the sin of "entertainment"
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A More Splendid Life. Tuesday, July 13, 2010. Soccer puritanism and the sin of "entertainment". There is a feeling in the air, a sort of sea change, following Sunday's final. You mostly find it on apologist message boards and blog comment sections, but some have written long form posts on it. The Globe and Mail's John Doyle, writing about the school inside River Plate stadium, sums it up:. And it is absolute guff. As a more talented writer than I might argue, all Sport is a TV Show. I cant quite put my f...
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A More Splendid Life: July 2011
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A More Splendid Life. Saturday, July 2, 2011. On careerism in the incestuously small Canadian soccer journalism scene. The Canadian soccer writing landscape has exploded over the last few years. It almost feels redundant to write this, but the number of Canadian soccer sources now available on the web is truly remarkable. The risk of course is that the things that made these “outside” voices popular in the first place—freedom to express their opinions about soccer, including publicly di...That said, I th...
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A More Splendid Life: A Funeral for A More Splendid Life
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A More Splendid Life. Tuesday, April 24, 2012. A Funeral for A More Splendid Life. Here lies A More Splendid Life, dead at just under five years of age. I owe all my successes to you. Thanks to the hangers on. I am now mired in my full-time gig with theScore, which you can find here. Posted by Richard Whittall. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). In 2011, after James Dart clearly ran out of ideas. He is a regular contributor the Score's Footy Blog. And Brian Phillip's unsurpassed Run of Play. The obligat...
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A More Splendid Life: How to be a successful soccer writer on the Internet*
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A More Splendid Life. Wednesday, February 16, 2011. How to be a successful soccer writer on the Internet*. I've spent the morning reading a few bookmarked articles on the AOL/Huffington Post takeover in the New York Times, specifically on whether the Huffington Post makes its money "on the backs" of unpaid bloggers. If you believe the answer is "yes," I'd recommend reading through Nate Silver's HuffPo page-view breakdown. If you're a shitty writer, no one will read you. If you're not a shitty writer but ...
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A More Splendid Life: This Bradley to Villa thing is embarrassing
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A More Splendid Life. Wednesday, August 25, 2010. This Bradley to Villa thing is embarrassing. Let's get right into it: as an Aston Villa supporter, I don't want Bob Bradley near my club. Not because I think he couldn't be an effectual manager, but Bradley doesn't come from a European professional set-up. He's true-blue NCAA collegiate, he's perfect for MLS, why try to jam your fingers in the English top flight machinery and stick him in? You're putting a lot of lives at risk. Posted by Richard Whittall.
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A More Splendid Life: February 2011
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A More Splendid Life. Friday, February 25, 2011. An brief idea for a new kind of football podcast. Lots of interesting media stories this week, particularly related to television rights. I probably don't need to dedicate an entire post to the subtext of the FA gearing up for a possible battle with UEFA. Over television rights monies from England qualifiers amid news that YouTube is going to get into the live sports streaming business. With MLS commish Don "the Don" Garber. Just putting it out there.
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A More Splendid Life: June 2011
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A More Splendid Life. Thursday, June 30, 2011. Canadian soccer's annus horribilis. In honour of the royal visitors Kate and whoseewotsits, this has been an annus horribilis. We are missing something. What that "something" is is anyone's guess. I personally think it's the swagger of a country that's had its moments. You get that "something" by taking football seriously, from the ground up. We're slowly moving in that direction with incremental CSA reform, but it will be sometime before we're there, in...
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A More Splendid Life: January 2011
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A More Splendid Life. Monday, January 31, 2011. Jason Davis: Transfer Rumors, The Guardian, and New Media's Race to the Bottom. A More Splendid Life takes pride today in welcoming the excellent Match Fit USA. S Jason Davis, here to remind you why the dirt won't wash off after today's Transfer Deadline Day mayhem. The Twitter uproar that followed Prior’s “exclusive” occurred in part because The Guardian. Prior’s tweeting took The Guardian. 8217;s prestige in the eyes of most, but the backlash proves somet...
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A More Splendid Life: November 2011
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A More Splendid Life. Wednesday, November 9, 2011. On the Guardian Sport Blog redesign. A year ago last month, I wrote a six part series. For Pitch Invasion called "Football, blogs and newspapers unite? In which I pushed for a newspaper/blog network as the future of digital sports journalism. Here's me:. To look for last year). A year later, and the Guardian has an Apple newsreader app, and now, a redesigned sport blog. Posted by Richard Whittall. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). His writing has appeared in T...
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