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Racism in Football

Burnwinter

Truly excellent football journalism, on racism in Italy, on ESPN today:

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/9338962/when-beautiful-game-turns-ugly

Biggus

I've been to that ground in Verona, looks like a good read Burnsy, I'll look at it later when I have time.

Burnwinter

It's like a throwback gonzo story. Nice feature with a much more intimate and real connection to the nature of the Roman ultras than almost anything you read.

Though I'm not too sure about the page design, you've got a lot of scrolling to do. Same concept as Pitchfork's Daft Punk album review - must be some kind of virus going around the web design world.

flobaba

Thanks for the link Burns. Great piece. Long, but well worth it. I recommend it.

invisibleman18

Very interesting read, thanks for the link.

Qwiss

Burnwinter wrote:
Truly excellent football journalism, on racism in Italy, on ESPN today:

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/9338962/when-beautiful-game-turns-ugly

Read that the other day. It really is top notch sports journalism.

Qwiss

Burnwinter wrote:
Though I'm not too sure about the page design, you've got a lot of scrolling to do.

I much prefer it to the usual click through 8 pages to up our stats model.

I also thought it looked really nice and broke the article up well. And it was formatted much more pleasingly than most articles on the web, especially football ones. Although the scroll bar was daunting.

Captain

Optimised for tablets, no?

Pepe LeFrits

Yeah, I really enjoyed that article too. A rare find these days...

MistaT

So its not related to football or racism, but if you enjoyed the layout/design of that article you have to check this one out:
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek

Really progressive style of online journalism that I hope becomes more widespread.

Can you imagine a game report/summary in this manner?

Pepe LeFrits

haha what is going on there?

Irishgunner

MistaT wrote:
So its not related to football or racism, but if you enjoyed the layout/design of that article you have to check this one out:
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek

Really progressive style of online journalism that I hope becomes more widespread.

Can you imagine a game report/summary in this manner?

Very cool!

Rex

The racism piece was really good. Thanks Burnsy!

Tony Montana

qs! wrote:
Burnwinter wrote:
Truly excellent football journalism, on racism in Italy, on ESPN today:

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/9338962/when-beautiful-game-turns-ugly

Read that the other day. It really is top notch sports journalism.

Brilliant read.

kamikaze

good read, good web design.

Burnwinter

Liverpool issue lengthy list of banned words not including anything Suarez actually said.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/jul/30/liverpool-unacceptable-words-discrimination

The guide has not been issued to Liverpool players because they, along with players at all Premier League and Football League clubs, receive separate guidance from the Football Association.

I note the words "smiling Glen Johnson" are still apparently free from regulation.

Biggus

Man up

😆
So what does the keeper/Capi shout at set pieces?
Would everyone kindly ensure that every opposition player is give the utmost attention is order that none of them may profit from any spatial advantages that might occur.

Burnwinter

😆 Something like this perhaps.

"Firstly, I would like to acknowledge the past and present traditional owners of this land, the Iceni tribe of the Briton nation. It is an honour to be able to speak on their country.

Without any intention of creating a working environment hostile to people of short stature, I'm proposing that we each respectfully approach an opposition player with commensurate vertical privilege, and make use of the previously negotiated consent we have to enter their personal space provided we act only within the bounds permitted by our cross-organisational community code of conduct.

If our informal decision-making process can reach agreement on this plan within the next few seconds, I hope that the implementation of this ad hoc team strategy will efficiently mitigate the damaging cycle of goals conceded that has up to this point contributed to a worrying culture of blame within our organisation.

In the event that the strategy doesn't meet with the expected result, an anonymous process improvement suggestion box will be available after the game, and remember you can arrange a private appointment with the tactical equity officer at any time. According to our policies, in which you have all received training appropriate to your cultural background and learning enablement, public accusations of "fault" and "blame" are typically aligned with unacknowledged workplace privilege and are inappropriate inline with direct workplace activity. We deal with process improvement in an out of band flow which is designed to facilitate a productive and positive atmosphere conducive to a low stress, ameliorative outcome.

At this point according to the standing orders for multiple stakeholder action resolution, can all staff who wish to make their preferences known, please show your hands and clearly state your preference 'aye' or 'nay' so that any visually or aurally impaired colleagues can participate fully in the resolution process."

Biggus

😆 Hmm you fetched that up pretty quickly, sounds like you've had to email that one out before.
Especially suspicious is the very Aussified opening line.

Burnwinter

To be fair the practice of acknowledgment of traditional indigenous owners is fully appropriate here, though perhaps not at snap meetings. 🙂

I've never had to give a speech of that nature, in fact the demands of "political correctness" in the workplace are far less than the demands of pretending you agree with, and like, some fuckwit boss or other!

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