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‘Sports has to be accessible to everyone. Everyone must have the possibility to enjoy sports regardless of age, physical or mental health, ethnicity, sexual orientation or social position. […] Therefore, we let go of pigeonholing. We will stop exclusion. This situation becomes self-evident because we are aiming at creating ‘inclusive sports’ (Bruins et al. 2018:Meer lezen over “‘Us-Them’ in the ‘Onder Ons’ Football club”

‘Britain’s South Asian community represents around five per cent of the total population, yet only two players from that community – Leicester’s Hamza Choudhury and Aston Villa’s Neil Taylor – are part of Premier League first-team squads‘ (Sky Sports 27/08/19) In this final blog, I discuss an ethnography by Daniel Burdsey ‘British Asians and Football-Meer lezen over “‘British Asianness’ in Football”

NO ONE LIKES US, NO ONE LIKES US, NO ONE LIKES US,WE DON’T CAREWE ARE MILLWALL, SUPER MILLWALLWE ARE MILLWALL FROM THE DEN Millwall FC is a football club in Bermondsey in London Borough of Southwark. The club is known for their large amount of hooligans and incidents with Millwall-supporters are widely covered by theMeer lezen over “Performance of ‘Millwallism’”

The Church says: The body is a sin.Science says: The body is a machine.Advertising says: The body is a business.The body says: I am a fiesta.~Eduardo Galeano The first lecture of Anthropology of the Body course ended with this quote by Eduardo Galeano. While reading this, the third line reminded me of a great articleMeer lezen over “Football identity among Islamic youth in France”

When you walk through a storm, Hold your head up high,And don’t be afraid of the dark, At the end of a storm,There’s a golden sky, And the sweet silver song of a lark,Walk on through the wind, Walk on through the rain,Though your dreams be tossed and blown, Walk on, walk on, with hopeMeer lezen over “Intro blog: Performances of Football Identities and The Body”