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Papa President
The fifth in my series of short summaries about the culture and politics of football.
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Sean Jacobs
Show Ponies
The fourth of my weekly short summaries about the culture and politics of football.
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Sean Jacobs
Real Madrid is a Black Club
The third of my weekly short summaries about the culture and politics of football.
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Sean Jacobs
April 2023
Gender-Based Violence
The second of my weekly short summaries about the culture and politics of football.
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Sean Jacobs
Fighting Football
The first of my weekly short summaries about the culture and politics of football. A pivot for this substack, which mostly consisted of podcast episodes…
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Sean Jacobs
December 2022
The Palestinian Vuvuzela
Eleven Named People combined with Africa Is a Country to do a round-up show before the semi-finals. For us, Morocco won the World Cup already.
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Sean Jacobs
November 2022
There is a World Cup
"The one month every four years when we all have dreamed of one thing ..."
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Sean Jacobs
October 2022
Red October
The vagaries of Egyptian football, the burden of Mohamed Salah and the (seemingly temporary) crisis at Liverpool F.C.
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Sean Jacobs
September 2022
God Save Our Gracious Team
Do football fans in the UK really love Queen Elizabeth II so much games had to be suspended?
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Sean Jacobs
Football and Revolution
Why was a commander in the ANC’s guerrilla army stationed in Angola in the 1980s spending his Saturday afternoons listening to Arsenal games on BBC…
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Sean Jacobs
August 2022
Look to Africa for the crowning
No guest(s) on the latest episode of Eleven Named People, but Tony Karon and I still do a lot of talking about football.
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Sean Jacobs
The Gunners of August
Episode 6 of Eleven Named People, the stream about football named after something historian Eric Hobsbawm wrote. Hosted by Sean Jacobs and Tony Karon.
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Sean Jacobs
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