VICE Article: Why We Need to Rid Football of Commercialism, Interview with our very own Joe Kennedy
- Thread starter Scutta
- Start date
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
There's a good number of points there, and a stupid headline.
Scutta
Live Fast Die Bizarre
good summary of vice in general.
Joe K
no al calcio con orchestra di ukulele
I have to say - although I had no agency whatsoever anyway - that I'm baffled that what you'd take away from GWF is that argument. There are literally two more instances in the book of me comparing going to football matches to being on acid than there are moments where I say 'football should have no commercial aspect', which is to say there are two of the former and none of the latter.
Joe K
no al calcio con orchestra di ukulele
In as much as reading the (very good, very surreal) Darlo fanzine Mission Impossible when I was a kid - in a period when I was 14 or so and just dicking about at school, really - introduced me to a load of, ahem, alternative culture. Think my first references to The Fall and Jean-Luc Godard were in there as well. I think the point they were always trying to make was that there was a direct correlation between supporting a shit football team and broadly pessimistic art.
Last edited:
all to nah
Well-Known Member
Wow - Derrida, Camus and Kennedy!
This is one of my favourite sentences, too. I liked the whole answer to question six. Looking forward to read the book!
This is one of my favourite sentences, too. I liked the whole answer to question six. Looking forward to read the book!
Joe K
no al calcio con orchestra di ukulele
You lost me at "In an interview back in 1991, the French philosopher Jacques Derrida..."
To be fair, that was the interviewer, not me. I'm not an enormous Jacky D fan - reminds me too much of being a postgrad surrounded by people who seemed viscerally offended by the fact I attended and played football. Don't see many books by those fuckers, to be fair.
Joe K
no al calcio con orchestra di ukulele
Wow - Derrida, Camus and Kennedy!
This is one of my favourite sentences, too. I liked the whole answer to question six. Looking forward to read the book!
Has your book arrived yet, mate? If not, let me know.
all to nah
Well-Known Member
jnrknight
James Knight
It is indeed. I sold a copy on Tuesday.
"This is one of my favourite sentences, too. I liked the whole answer to question six. Looking forward to read the book!"
Bloody academics union!
Bloody academics union!
Joe K
no al calcio con orchestra di ukulele
No, it didn't, but I got my money back and will grab a copy from DHST on October 8th.
Excellent. Pleased to hear it, and sorry the ordering turned out to be a pain in the arse.
Was that to the guy, we were giving it the hard sell to?
all to nah
Well-Known Member
jnrknight
James Knight
He was close but it was actually Scott B!
