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Seahawk on BBC

by seahawk10 » 10 Jun 2010 21:08

A BBC news crew was out at the college wherI work doing a story on America's interest in soccer and the world cup. I took this course for fun and show up at the 18 second mark (and at the very end) sporting my Reading home strip (the professors asked us to wear our favourite teams shirt that day and I had to represent). The course was titled, 'The History and Politics of Soccer', I learned quite a bit. The interviews with the professors is right outside my office, so you can see the weather I have to endure every day.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and ... 192982.stm

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by zummerset » 10 Jun 2010 21:49

Nice one SeaHawk - is the course worthwhile?

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Re: Seahawk on BBC

by LoyalRoyalFan » 10 Jun 2010 22:23

Nice one seahawk.

Is that course open to the English?

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Re: Seahawk on BBC

by Thomas L'Heureux » 10 Jun 2010 22:27

Even after taking the course the bird at 1.54 still doesn't understand the basics of the game... :|

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Re: Seahawk on BBC

by leww_rfc » 10 Jun 2010 22:44

Awesome Stuff SeaHawk!


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Re: Seahawk on BBC

by Baines » 10 Jun 2010 22:51

Good work, Seahawk. I guess that from your hobnob studies, you're in a good position to comment on such matters as "relative demand within a geographical area and pressures on ground extensions" and "how the tint of a fan's view of recent results is indicative of the duality of man" and so on.

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Re: Seahawk on BBC

by seahawk10 » 10 Jun 2010 23:10

Thomas L'Heureux Even after taking the course the bird at 1.54 still doesn't understand the basics of the game... :|


Poor MaROFLy! If only she had said 'kick' the ball around instead of 'throw' the ball around! She was one of the assistants to the profs and passed around the attendance sheet. Nice girl, a bit thick.

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by seahawk10 » 10 Jun 2010 23:15

Baines Good work, Seahawk. I guess that from your hobnob studies, you're in a good position to comment on such matters as "relative demand within a geographical area and pressures on ground extensions" and "how the tint of a fan's view of recent results is indicative of the duality of man" and so on.


Hob Nob aided me greatly when we hit upon such topics as how to get to your local ground after some chavs nicked your merc. Which airlines to use when your e-beef forces you to pay for a one-way ticket to a supporter of another team to engage in fisticuffs. And I was well prepared for the lecture on how to shop in a Rape Anthems album cover into the background of nearly any picture. Skllz...

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by Maguire » 10 Jun 2010 23:17

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Baines Good work, Seahawk. I guess that from your hobnob studies, you're in a good position to comment on such matters as "relative demand within a geographical area and pressures on ground extensions" and "how the tint of a fan's view of recent results is indicative of the duality of man" and so on.


Hob Nob aided me greatly when we hit upon such topics as how to get to your local ground after some chavs nicked your merc. Which airlines to use when your e-beef forces you to pay for a one-way ticket to a supporter of another team to engage in fisticuffs. And I was well prepared for the lecture on how to shop in a Rape Anthems album cover into the background of nearly any picture. Skllz...


:lol:


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Re: Seahawk on BBC

by seahawk10 » 10 Jun 2010 23:20

zummerset Nice one SeaHawk - is the course worthwhile?


Perfect for a johnny come lately like me. I learned quite a bit to be honest. I had no idea the English didn't play in the early World Cups for example. We watched a few games from World Cups in the 60's and 70's which I loved (I posted links to them online somewhere in this forum).

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by Ian Royal » 10 Jun 2010 23:22

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zummerset Nice one SeaHawk - is the course worthwhile?


Perfect for a johnny come lately like me. I learned quite a bit to be honest. I had no idea the English didn't play in the early World Cups for example. And we watched a few games from the early World Cups which I loved (I posted links to them online somewhere in this forum).


Pah, who needs a tournament to tell them they're the best in the world. We invented the bally game, of course we're the best! The other teams are only Johnny Foreigner for goodness sake. Probably can't afford goalposts in their dirty little "countries".

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Re: Seahawk on BBC

by Maguire » 10 Jun 2010 23:26

By the way, cultural tip - the closer you sit to the front of the class in England the more you the shit bullied out of you.

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Re: Seahawk on BBC

by seahawk10 » 11 Jun 2010 01:06

Maguire By the way, cultural tip - the closer you sit to the front of the class in England the more you the shit bullied out of you.

lol, all of that goes out the window when you can't see the oxford slides unless you are in the front row or are wearing your glolasses (which brings even more torment from the hundreds of young, fit female bullies in attendance). Oh...


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by Compo's Hat » 11 Jun 2010 01:24

Please tell me you didn't take a 'South African blow horn' home with you.

What exactly is the course teaching you then?

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by seahawk10 » 11 Jun 2010 01:39

Compo's Hat Please tell me you didn't take a 'South African blow horn' home with you.

What exactly is the course teaching you then?


I did bring one home for the kids to play with, quickly bored with it and now it is a chew toy for the dog.

Here is the course syllabus, class is over I got a B+:

History and Political Economy of World Soccer
Spring 2010
Tuesday/Thursday 12-1:10pm
Pickford Auditorium

Professors Boyle and Wakefield
Nigel Boyle, Scott 213, Office Hours W 9-11,
Andre Wakefield, Scott 226, Office Hours TTh 1:15-2:30
Teaching Assistant Matt Herceg
Work-Study Assistant Mary Munoz

This course examines topics in the history and politics of world soccer. We will see how culture, politics, economics and history play themselves out upon the stage of stadium and field. And we will try to understand the game as others, in different times and places, have seen it: a game freighted with meaning and beauty.

The course has three main parts. In the first we will examine how soccer emerged to become the world’s hegemonic sports culture. In the second part of the course we will examine the political economy of modern soccer. The parallel, and sometimes contradictory, development of FIFA as the dominant international organization of world soccer (with the World Cup as its principal creature) and the major European professional clubs (with the European Champions League as their principal creature) will be a central focus of this second part of the course. In the third part of the course we will explore the relationship between soccer and major contemporary political issues such as racial and gender equality and globalization. This is a very large, lecture-based, survey course. Course organization and pedagogies reflect these realities.

Required Materials

We will be using one book as our core text. David Goldblatt’s The Ball is Round: a Global History of Soccer. Two other books you will need to purchase are Eduardo Galeano’s Soccer in Sun and Shadow and Kuper and Szymanski’s Soccernomics. All other required readings will be made available on Sakai. Material on two academic soccer blogs will be used in the class: From a Left Wing: the Cultural Politics of Soccer http://fromaleftwing.blogspot.com/ and Soccer Politics http://blogs-dev.oit.duke.edu/wcwp/.

Students are expected to follow news coverage of soccer through the semester, including coverage of the African Cup of Nations, Champions League and the World Cup. A subscription (initially free) to Soccer America (socceramerica.com) is not a bad place to start. Visual learners are also encouraged to purchase and view the 7-part DVD History of Soccer: The Beautiful Game.

Five sets of “enrichment” activities connected to the course are operating this semester.
1.Students will be encouraged to participate in Field Trips to see the US v. Honduras game in Carson on January 23 and the Mexico v. New Zealand game at the Rose Bowl on March 3. Students will also be encouraged to watch the final of the African Cup of Nations on January 31 and selected Champions League Games. Arrangements for collective viewing will be made where possible.
2. A “soccer film” series connected to the class will run through the semester, coordinated by Matt Herceg. A set of other movies and games will be made available via a download folder. Students will be required to attend at least three of the showings and also submit short responses to 2 games and 2 other films made available through a download folder.
3.Students will be encouraged to attend talks being given by visiting speakers connected to the class (or maybe in-class): Jennifer Doyle, Laurent Dubois, Bob Edelman, John McDermott, David Goldblatt and others.
4.Especially keen non-senior students will be invited to participate in the development of the Soccer Politics blog http://blogs-dev.oit.duke.edu/wcwp/. The terms for this participation will be negotiated with the Instructors.
5.Students with an interest in the EU as it relates to soccer/sports governance are encouraged to submit a proposal/paper to the April undergraduate research conference sponsored by The European Union Center of California: http://eucenter.scrippscollege.edu/conference.html

Grading
There will be two exams, a midterm and a final. Exams will cover the reading and lectures. We will also have occasional quizzes in class. The course grade will be determined as follows: midterm exam (30%); final exam (50%); quizzes (10%); and attendance (at class and at other events) 10%. Exams will entail short-answer identifications and essays. Students may opt to take the class Pass - No Credit (and switch to P/NC until March 11). Auditors will be allowed to attend the class & participate in related activities.

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Themes, Topics, Schedule and Required Reading

Week 1: Explaining the World Though the Soccer Prism
Tuesday, January 19: The Academic Study of Soccer: teachers, scholars and fans
READING: Kuper/Szymanski chaps. 1, 8, 10.
Thursday, January 21: Origins of Soccer & Soccer’s Strange Historiography
READING: Goldblatt, fwd, intro, chaps. 1-2 (pp. ix-xviii, 3-49); Galeano, pp. 1-38.

Week 2: The Social and Geographic Diffusion of Soccer 1863-1925
Tuesday, January 26: Industrial Soccer: the English Working Class and Model of Development 1863-1914
READING: Goldblatt, chap. 3 (pp. 50-82), Kuper/Szymanski chap. 7.
Thursday, January 28: Pax Britannica’s Parting Gift: The English Game Played by Foreigners 1880-1925
READING: Goldblatt, chap. 4-5 (pp. 83-170). Szymanski and Zimbalist “How soccer spread around the world when baseball didn’t”

Week 3: Soccer as Commercialized Sports Culture
Tuesday, February 2: Professionalization, and developmental thresholds
READING: Goldblatt, chap. 6 (pp. 171-226). Kuper/Szymanski chap. 4.
Thursday, February 4: Four Rivers Run Through It: a history of soccer tactics
READING: Goldblatt, chap. 7 (pp. 227-262); John Wilson Inverting the Pyramid: the history of football tactics (excerpts). A. Sack “When Yale Spirit Vanquished Harvard Indifference”. Reisman and Denney, “Football in America: A study in Cultural Diffusion”

Week 4: The Slippery Tool: Fascists, Nazis, Communists & Soccer
Tuesday, February 9: Dictators & Soccer: Mussolini and Franco
READING: Goldblatt, chap. 9 (pp. 297-356).
Thursday, February 11: Communists, The Death Match & Soviet Soccer
READING: Galeano, pp. 38-85. R. Edelman Spartak Moscow: a history of the people’s team in the workers state (excerpts)

Week 5: The Eye of the Beholder: Latin American Futbol
Tuesday, February 16: Brazil and Joga Bonito
READING: Goldblatt, chaps. 8, 10, 15 (pp. 263-296, 357-395, 606-648).
Thursday, February 18: Galeano on Latin American Futbol: cultural determinism?
READING: Galeano, pp. 85-142.

Week 6: German and American Exceptionalisms: Bowling Together?
Tuesday, February 23: Germans, Austrians, Jews & Bavarians: 20th Century Fußball
READING: Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberg Tor! The Story of German Football (excerpts)
Thursday, February 25: American Games & Freezing Hypotheses: AYSO, Title XI, MLS
READING: A. Markovits and S. Hellerman Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism (excerpts)

Week 7: The Orange Geometry of Modern Soccer
Tuesday, March 2: Totaalvoetbal: Holland’s Dream/Nightmare
READING: Goldblatt, chap. 11 (pp. 396-478); David Winner Brilliant Orange: the neurotic genius of Dutch soccer (excerpts)
Thursday, March 4: MIDTERM EXAM (March 11 final day for Pass/NC)

Week 8: African Soccer in Africa (and in Europe)
Tuesday, March 9: Racism, Multiculturalism and Francophone Soccer
READING: Dubois Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (forthcoming, excerpts)
Thursday, March 11: Soccer in Africa and Africans in (European) Soccer
READING: Goldblatt, chap. 12, 16 (pp. 479-510, 649-678).

Week 9: SPRING BREAK

Week 10: FIFA & the Globalization of Men’s and Women’s Soccer
Tuesday, March 23: Havelange & The Telecracy
READING: Goldblatt, chap. 13, 18 (pp. 513-541; 774-829), Galeano, pp. 143-170.
Thursday, March 25: Collegiate & Professional Women’s Soccer: Panel Discussion
READING: The Cultural Politics of Soccer http://fromaleftwing.blogspot.com/

Week 11: The Real “Ever Closer Union”: European Club Soccer 1955-2010
Tuesday, March 30: Fan Cultures and the Glory Game
READING: Goldblatt, chap. 14 (pp. 543-605), Kuper/Szymanski chaps. 9, 11.
Thursday, April 1: Champions League and the Money Game
READING: Goldblatt, chap. 17 (pp. 681-729), Galeano pp. 170-222.

Week 12: The Dismal Science Meets the Beautiful Game
Tuesday, April 6: Training and Paying Premiership Players
READING: Kuper/Szymanski chaps. 3, 5; Roberto Pedace “Earnings, Performance, and Nationality Discrimination in a Highly Competitive Labor market as an analysis of the English Professional Soccer League” Journal of Sports Economics 2008
Thursday, April 8: The Genius of Franck Ribery:
READING: Kuper/Szymanski chap. 6.

Week 13: Soccer’s Final Frontiers: the Middle East, Asia-Pacific & Women,
Tuesday, April 13: The Middle East, the New Leagues, and the 2002 World Cup
READING: Goldblatt, chap. 19 (pp. 830-873).
Thursday, April 15: The Women’s World Cup: FIFA, 1999 and 2011
READING: Jere Longman Girls of Summer: the US Soccer Team and How it Changed the World (excerpts)

Week 14: On to South Africa: Kuper/Szymanski versus Pele
Tuesday, April 20: The Political Economy of Winning World Cups
READING: Kuper/Szymanski chaps. 2, 13, 14, 15.
Thursday, April 22: Pele’s Prediction and the 2010 World Cup
READING: Goldblatt, chap. 20 (pp.874-899)

Week 15: Soccer’s Globalized and Globalizing Future
Tuesday, April 27: The Champions League Final (SFs April 27/28) and the Plutocratic Future of Club Soccer
READING/VIEWING: Champions League Finals 2002-9.
Thursday, April 29: 2010 & 2011 World Cups: the Future of International Soccer
READING: Goldblatt, Conclusion (pp. 900-907). Kuper/Szymanski chap. 12.

Week 16: Injury Time
Tuesday May 4th Senior Final
Thursday May 6th Reading day
Final Exam: Tuesday May 11, 7pm.



Monday(?) Screening Series (Provisional):

Week 3: The Damned United (2009) English Soccer’s Working Class Milieux
Week 4: Victory (1981) Awful Hollywood version of the Death Match
Week 5: Maradona by Kusturica (2008) Argentinian Deity/Addict/Revolutionary
Week 6: The Miracle of Bern (2003) 1954 German Rebirth Through Soccer
Week 7: The Other Final (2003) Bhutan v Montserrat
Week 8: Le Ballon D’or (1994) European Soccer Dreams of African Kids
Week 10: Die Besten Frauen der Welt (2008) German Women’s WC Team 2007
Week 11: FC Barcelona Confidential (2004) Més que un club?
Week 12: Keeper’s Anxiety at Penalty (1971) Psychology/Game Theory of the Elfmeter
Week 13: The Game of Their Lives (2002) 1966 North Korean Soccer Team
Week 14: Team That Never Played (2010) South African Soccer and Apartheid
Week 15: Fahrenheit 2010 (2010) Political Economy of WC in S. Africa


Recommended Viewing Internet Series
Movies:
Week 3: The World Cup: A Captain’s Tale (1982)
Week 4: Football and Fascism (2009)
Week 5: Gods of Football Pele + Garrincha (2002)
Week 6: In the Hands of the Gods (2007)
Week 7: Ladybugs/The Big Green
Week 8: Zidane: 21st Century Portrait (2007)
Week 10: The Interior Life of the Substitute (Dhorasoo) (2008)
Week 11: Six Days to Saturday (1963)
Week 12: Football as Never Before (1971)
Week 13: Offside (2006)
Week 14 Do I Not Like That (1994) /
Week 15: Once in a Lifetime: Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006)

Games:
Week 3: 1930 World Cup Highlights
Week 4: Spartak Moscow v. Dynamo Kyev 1989
Week 5: Brazil v. Italy 1970
Week 6: USA v. Colombia 1994
Week 7: Holland v. Germany 1974
Week 8: Cameroon v. England 1990
Week 10: USA v. China 1999
Week 11: Glasgow Celtic v. Inter Milan 1967
Week 12: Glasgow Rangers v. Dynamo Kiev 1972
Week 13: South Korea v. Italy 2002
Week 14: Iraq v. Saudi Arabia 2007
Week 15: Real Madrid v. Dortmund 2002

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Re: Seahawk on BBC

by Compo's Hat » 11 Jun 2010 01:46

Now that would seriously geek me up 8)

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Re: Seahawk on BBC

by 10539.4 Miles Away » 11 Jun 2010 02:36

I love the fact you get 10% of your final grade for turning up

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Re: Seahawk on BBC

by Compo's Hat » 11 Jun 2010 03:15

I see they're trying to get some patriotism built up across the pond for Saturday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85AeTKyk ... r_embedded

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Re: Seahawk on BBC

by Silver Fox » 11 Jun 2010 08:29

seahawk10 Week 15: Once in a Lifetime: Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006)

Week 5: Brazil v. Italy 1970


Worth doing the course just for these!

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Re: Seahawk on BBC

by papereyes » 11 Jun 2010 09:35

Dan Goldblatt's book is pretty good. Worth a read on its own merits.

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