The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.
The academic treatment for English-speakers who get that soccer is more than gamedays, stars and goals. Who wonder about the histories, subcultures and politics that make the game so different from many American sports cultures; and who care about a critical take on soccer as a global capitalist machine. A European-guided journey, with one expert "visiting professor" each episode.
The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.
Latest Episodes
The Andy Burnham Guide to Soccer and Politics
New British prime minister Andy Burnham has said that his morals have been shaped by Everton FC, the Catholic Church, and the labour party. Perhaps in that order. And indeed, Burnham’s politics were forged on the terraces, long before Dow...
Forged in Iron, Sold for Parts? West Ham, Millwall, and the Business of Community
West Ham are in the Championship, Millwall are back on the fixture list, and the Docker's Derby ended 2-2. Historian and lifelong Hammers fan Max Portman joins the show to ask whether relegation can be liberation, just as it was for 1860 Munich...
Relegation is Liberation: Munich 1860's fall into the Fourth Division
What happens when a club loses its right to compete — not through relegation on the pitch, but through a financial trapdoor built by the very man who was supposed to save it?This summer, 1860 Munich missed a license deadline a few millio...
An Austrian and an Indian walk into the World Cup...
... or: an Economist and a Tactics Nerd on what the last 6 weeks tell us about where the game is going. A spontaneous and incomplete post-final reaction.HELPFUL LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE:
Season Round-Up with Guests and Music! Titles, Finals, Chaos, Hope, and Relegation
The traditional The Assistant Professor of Football season round-up is back. I asked guests from this past year, and some from previous years whose clubs had remarkable seasons of one sort or the other how their clubs have fared, what moment st...
