Saturday, 14 March 2026
War: athletic and military
The 2026 war against Iran may finally exhaust any serious public engagement with the pronouncements of the White House leadership, including its desire, with the help of global football, aka soccer, governors FIFA, to use the 2026 World Cup in North America as a marketing campaign. War, even when regional, not world warn, “trumps” sport and can knock the tournament out of the news cycle for a few days at least. People die in wars, however flimsy their rationale and that at least should undermine the effort of FIFA and the US president to “sportswash” the biggest sporting event on planet earth. An already tarnished tournament is likely forever degraded for all but diehard sports fans and so will, after World Cup 2026, occupy a more sober position in global consciousness. The scandal plagued aspirations of global football managers may thus henceforth return to the sport’s historic role of opium for the masses.
Saturday, 28 February 2026
World Cup 2026 - our chance to return the people's game to the people
It has taken a massive reaction in the soccer world to threaten the future of the world's biggest single sports event. The combination of FIFA chairman Gianni Infantino and the 2026 US president have caused the threat, and the danger of global warfare from independent reactions may transform threat into fact..If the cause is dangerous to all, maybe the reaction can change FIFA, the current managers of world football from corporate advertising servants into a social enterprise. We call for a democratic takeover of FIFA to ensure oversight and return "the people/s game" to the people, making it really beautiful for all. The creation of a FIFA Rankings of recent World Cup hosts make clear the need for FIFA to set standards instead of claiming the game should be separated from ethical concerns. Among 165 nations ranked by the World Population Review Russia is ranked 152, Myanmar (home country of FIFA social responsibility committee chair 160. We call on FIFA to include rights and freedom norms in its selection of World Cup host countries.
Saturday, 21 February 2026
The problem is not one unelected official named Andrew
The problem is monarchy, which gives.some humans the freedom to do whatever they like. Rape, thievery, murder and extortion have been the hallmarks of monarchy throughout history. The solution. End it. The honourable thing would be for monarchs to resign. A social economy is impossible when a country’s core decision making institution is a biological preserve.
Monday, 9 February 2026
From people’s game to “the beautiful game”
As a sometime serious football aka soccer player this blogger from Toronto detects deeper messages in the language used about the world’s favourite sport (sorry Super Bowl fans - American football doesn’t cut it around the world). Soccer is still popular among real people but with online fees dwarfing in park attendance revenue football as spectacle for the majority who can’t attend games in person becomes ever more significant. If the audience has grown by online exposure their connection is changing and formerly largely excluded spectators, including women, are now fans. Whatever football will become we cannot say but the people of the people’s game will continue to transform it in ways less viscerally tribal, yes for the better perhaps but as a more distant pleasure. Online all games are “away” games. Onsite passion as gallery appreciation, anyone?
Sunday, 1 February 2026
Sportswashing ramps up as the 2026 World Cup approaches
Friday, 30 January 2026
Canada's 1812 war with the United States: what you need to know
Who would you choose to award the 2026 World Cup of football/soccer ?
Who below, if any, represents the values of honesty and open endeavor that the game, at its best, celebrates?
Pictured below are Gianni Infntino, president of scandal plagued FIFA, the insult prone USA President, Mexico's premier Gloria Sheinbaum and prime minister of Canada Mark Carney.
