December 2011
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The Hackney Marshes Centre by Stanton Williams...
Hackney Marshes is best known as the London home of grassroots amateur football. The site contains the greatest number of pitches in anyone location in the UK; with forty matches played simultaneously on Sundays. Having spent college years in neighboring Bow and Mile End, the marshes and sometimes rutted pitches were a familiar scene. The changing room over spill providing late...
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The Final: A Footballing Philosophy
Blitzkrieg FC and Fat Camp FC recently met in the coed final, a match between the season’s top scorers – with 42 & 43 league goals respectively. With both teams seemingly constructed on the old sporting maxim of “attack being the best form of defense”, the final hinted at a goalaccio surplus of Mancinian proportions. The victors to be rewarded with shapely trophies in the form of Nike,...
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“This much seems clear: The man loves gray, and he...
Our “Chinatown Ballers” spread has popped up in a number of places around the interwebs but our favorite discovery comes from Germany on the hugely popular/must read blog Freitagsspeil FuBball, vereinzelt abseits. Despite the popularity of the blog–we’ve been told it has a readership of 81,702,335, which is six more people than the entire population of Germany, whoa–we’re having a hard time...
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The Travel Almanac #2
Here’s a looker of a new magazine from Berlin based The Travel Almanac. Issue 2 now available at www.travel-almanac.com
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Knipster in the Bud: Chinatown Ballers
Hey everybody! Pictures of ourselves! This is our brand of narcissism, which is complicated and should not be confused with the run-of-the-mill, cheap hussy brand of self-love you find elsewhere. No matter, there’s not a lot to say when you post pics of yourself.
More importantly, however, you can’t turn down the opportunity to be documented by the inimitable photographer/Group...
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How to Make it in America
Galaxy Stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka.
As the Galaxy’s recent MLS triumph fades to an Icelandic data bank, it’s as if a preordained horoscope of events played out. There was a sense for much of the season that only a self imposed Mercury retrograde destruction – a David vs Donovan tryst – would deny them victory on the Home Depot sponsored home soil. The Galaxy after all had secured a...
