In January, London’s School of Life held what it called “The Self Help Summit.†The Summit, culmination of years of psychotherapists’ frustration at what they call the S...
http://www.morethanmindgames.com/2011/02/09/self-help-summitry-and-class/
A few days after her death, my grandmother comes in through my bedroom window after lights out. I am six years old. She does so again on other nights. The dream always follows the same path. Male...
http://www.morethanmindgames.com/2011/02/09/the-return-of-kenny-dalglish/
I don’t have heroes. Certainly, I don’t have footballing ones: any heroism that footballers have committed has been tangental to the actual game. Harry Gregg, yes. Bryan Robson, no....
http://www.morethanmindgames.com/2011/02/08/meeting-simon-clifford/
Say this for David Pearce’s novel The Damned Utd – it was the first really unembarrassed cultural treatment that the national game has ever had. Fever Pitch broke the ground. But Fe...
UPDATE: I think the phrase is “overtaken by events”! I’ll leave this here as a period piece, but as things stand, O’Neill won’t ,after all, be going to West Ham. It’s unlikely that Gr...
http://www.morethanmindgames.com/2011/01/15/martin-oneill-at-west-ham/
Wishing you all warm fires, an unlimited supply of good wine and food, and whatever it is for you that would make all this splendid and memorable. Thank you for your superb company in 2010. Here ...
http://www.morethanmindgames.com/2010/12/24/merry-christmas-from-mtmg/
Following on from our look at Billy Graham’s 1955 address to the BWA at Highbury, Phil Wilson (Doveson2008 of Flickr) sends word of colour FILM of Highbury in the form of a British Pathe newsre...
http://www.morethanmindgames.com/2010/12/19/colour-film-of-highbury-in-1956/
This weekend, Sir Alex Ferguson will surpass Sir Matt Busby’s record as the longest serving manager in Manchester United history. He’ll go on to serve his full quarter century next year, and ...
http://www.morethanmindgames.com/2010/12/18/the-14-year-rule-football-management-and-career-length/
UPDATE: Doveson2008 kindly returned to the original slide, rescanned it and provided a great deal of additional information besides. Armed with that, Matthew and I have been able to pin down the ...
http://www.morethanmindgames.com/2010/12/17/an-early-colour-photograph-of-highbury/
You might remember this map – showing the walking routes of the Apollo 11 astronauts superimposed onto a standard-sized football pitch. On MTMG previously… The original map is actually taken ...
http://www.morethanmindgames.com/2010/12/12/apollo-11-and-a-football-pitch/