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The Finals: Index
Prologue: The Moment Of Moments An outline of this series, and a look at just why international Finals are the spectacle that they are. 1896: A Disputed Beginning Did football take place at the first Olympics, and if so what … Continue reading
The Finals – 1906: One Half
To read the previous entry in this series, please click here. It is easy to forget in these days when the Olympics is an event so massive that not even a worldwide pandemic can completely stop its course, that its … Continue reading
The Finals – 1904: A Scotsman In Canada
To read the previous entry in this series, please click here. From discussions on whether a game took place at all to a three-way competition of clubs that was only recognised as such decades later, we come to the first … Continue reading
The Finals – 1900: The Amateurs, The Indigenous And The Students
To see the previous entry in this series, please click here. Four years after the 1896 Olympic football final/demonstration that may or may not have taken place, both the Olympics and Olympic football were back, this time in a much … Continue reading
The Finals – 1896: A Disputed Beginning
To read the previous entry in this series, please click here. It can be easy to forget that there was a time before wall-to-wall TV coverage, a time before radio, a time before all-encompassing reporting in newspapers, a place when … Continue reading
The Finals – Prologue: The Moment Of Moments
Introducing a new series to the site, one that I hope will serve as something of a spiritual sequel to 211 To 1, my effort to provide a running collection of reflections to the qualification for, and Finals of, the … Continue reading
211 To 1: Reflections On Qatar 2022 (XVII) – Triumph, Despair And A Whole Lot In-Between
To view more entries in this series, please click here to go to the index. We were down to the last four. Representatives from three different confederations ran a gambit: giants of the game, hard-working underdogs, no-hopers up to a few … Continue reading
211 To 1: Reflections On Qatar 2022 (XVI) – Descent
To view more entries in this series, please click here to go to the index. 16 teams were left. The First Round carries with it a certain air, of optimism before a ball is kicked, of continuing hope after the first … Continue reading
211 To 1: Reflections On Qatar 2022 (XV) – The Promised Land
To view more entries in this series, please click here to go to the index. If football, and especially international football, is a religion, then the World Cup has to be considered the good land, the land of milk and honey, … Continue reading
211 To 1: Reflections On The Road To Qatar 2022 (XIV) – Groups Of Life, Groups Of Death
To view more entries in this series, please click here to go to the index. This is it then. Starting tomorrow the 32 nations that have been able to rise above the rest of the 211 will begin the 2022 World … Continue reading