By Alexander Moreau Photography via the Londonist Flickrpool The England football team suffered ignominious defeat at the hands of Germany in Bloemfontein yesterday but England supporters in Trafalgar Square continued to celebrate, even taking a post match bath in the fountains as a dour faced …
Poetry and football might not seem the easiest of bedfellows, but The Albany in Deptford and ARC in Stockton commissioned four poets to make short spoken word films for the World Cup. Scroobius Pip made an elegy for Millwall’s Old Den, Polarbear honoured Maradona, Charlie …
E Wood, Patriotic Butcher by Herschell Hershey Loins girded, beer fridge stocked, red and white lucky pants lined up: Saturday sees the much hyped first World Cup match for England against Team USA. If things weren’t tense enough already, aides to the men charged with …
In search of London’s best sandwich since sliced bread Having Haddin-uff of Cook-ing for ourselves and eating nothing but straightforward sandwiches, we decided to celebrate England’s victory over Australia in the Ashes by Broad-ening our horizons and having a bash at a burger instead, rather …
Photo via Nigel Wilson’s Flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cocca/2254496847/ Fry and Laurie would be working themselves up into a right old state about the opportunities available to the capital’s football watchers over the next few days. It’s not every day that you can pitch up at the …
Cry ‘God for Boris, England and Saint George!’ London’s getting a week of free events to mark the national saint’s day, including a Shakespeare event at the Globe, a folky concert in Trafalgar Square and something to do with food and a Routemaster at Leadenhall …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 6th October 1985: Police Constable Keith Blakelock, whilst protecting firefighters during a riot in Tottenham, trips over and falls to the ground. Before he can regain his feet, he is hacked to death by a mob carrying knives …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 8th September 1915: During the first bombing raid on London of the First World War, a Zeppelin drops incendiary bombs near Fenchurch Street. Tuesday – 9th September 1960: Hugh John Mungo Grant is born in Hammersmith. He would …
The men may have had the summer off to relax, but England’s Ladies team are already back in action and last night faced world champions Germany (above) in a friendly. Alex Stone of the Football Association sent us this report: Germany concluded their Olympic preparations …
We love to be dazzled by youth. Be it Zadie Smith’s precocious debut novel, the Arctic Monkeys storming straight to No.1 or Lewis Hamilton tearing up the track in his first F1 season, we are consistently enraptured and delighted by the ability of the young …
This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 26. Lazy or Incapable? It’s never been easy being a supporter of the England football team. The experience can best be summed up as a periodic …
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