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How to Kill a Football Club
By Pete Usher Old Etonians versus Blackburn Rovers. The game's not what it used to be. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In previous...
May 31, 20245 min read
Sport and Politics - The Olympic Games. Part 8
By Pete Usher. The Royal Barge Gloriana moored at the London Olympic Park in 2012. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. And so we come to...
Apr 26, 202414 min read
Sport and Politics: The Olympic Games. Part 7
By Pete Usher Promoting peace and harmony and with a complete absence of politics, right? Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. People...
Apr 3, 202412 min read
The Nearly Tales of Sport
By Pete Usher Sport is always full of “nearly” stories, normally at the business end of a competition. Just recently, Scotland nearly...
Mar 25, 20245 min read
Sport and Politics: The Olympic Games, Part 6
By Pete Usher. Ben Johnson. From national hero to national disgrace with one drug test. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Why, Ben?...
Feb 28, 202413 min read
Sport and Politics: The Olympic Games, Part 5
By Pete Usher A lengthy gestation period was involved at Montréal. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. “The Olympics can no more have a...
Jan 22, 202412 min read
Alternate History and Sport: Alternate Leagues
By Pete Usher. Boston National League baseball team, 1900. The oldest league in the world. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. League...
Dec 14, 202313 min read
Sport and Politics: The Olympic Games, Part 4
By Pete Usher 1968. Two gloved fists, three careers wrecked. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Continuing the series of how politics...
Dec 8, 202312 min read
Sport and Politics - The Olympic Games Part 3.
By Pete Usher. Continuing the series of how politics and sport have, in fact, mixed at the modern Olympic Games. Parts 1 and 2 can be...
Nov 3, 202314 min read
Sport in Alternate History, Part 7. Teams that never were - Relocations
By Pete Usher MK Dons; they seem to be missing a goalkeeper. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Following on from Pete's article on...
Oct 19, 202311 min read
Sport in Alternate History. Part 4: Sport and Politics (I)
By Pete Usher Final sword match (foil) at the 1896 Olympics. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Sports and politics don’t mix. Eric...
Aug 25, 202313 min read
Sport in Alternate History. Part 3: Edgbaston 2005
By Pete Usher The smallest trophy in world team sports. Michael Vaughan holding The Ashes after victory in 2005. Picture courtesy ESPN....
Aug 2, 202310 min read
Sport in Alternate History. Part 2: Disasters
By Pete Usher Possibly the most famous of them all. The Munich air disaster. Picture courtesy Sky News. The first part of this article...
Jul 19, 20235 min read
Sport in Alternate History. Part 1
By Pete Usher. Gordon Banks making the iconic, impossible save from Pele in the 1970 World Cup. “If that had gone in, it would have been...
Jul 11, 20238 min read
Panel Beating
No, not that sort of panel beating. Image courtesy Wikimedia commons. In this article, I’ll be posing a few questions for some regulars...
Apr 5, 202315 min read
Why We Sing The Songs We Sing
By Pete Usher On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Dec 8, 20203 min read
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