Monthly Archives: November 2010

Why was England in the sporting vanguard?

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Robert Henderson

Why did England invent so many games and show such an appetite for them as players,   spectators  and administrators  that modern  sport became possible?  Industrialisation  undoubtedly  provided  the  opportunity  for  modern spectator sports by  moving England early from a predominantly … Continue reading →

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Immigration – English sport is a mirror of English society

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Robert Henderson

 Sport  holds up a mirror to any society.  Sadly,  English  sport  today shares  the ills of English society at large. Due to the actions of the British  elite  professional  team sport in England  has  been  heavily infiltrated  by   foreign players … Continue reading →

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English Speaking Union debate: ‘This house believes that an English Parliament is the last hope for a United Kingdom’

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Robert Henderson

Report and commentary on the Campaign for an English Parliament  English Speaking Union debate  24 November  2010 held at Dartmouth House, 37 Charles Street, London W1J 5ED Proposition: ‘This house believes that an English Parliament  is the last hope for a … Continue reading →

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Football – the world game

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Robert Henderson

Football  is  the  nearest there is to  a world game.  There  are  easy reasons for this. At its most basic football  is a game  which requires the  most  rudimentary  of equipment,  a ball.  Its  rules  are  simple compared with those of other  games … Continue reading →

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The English sporting amateur

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Robert Henderson

Top  class  sport is now so tied to money that it may seem  quaint  to his  generation  that for all  of the nineteenth century and  much  of twentieth century the  amateur played a major  role in many of the more … Continue reading →

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Cricket – the first modern game

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Robert Henderson

Cricket  was the first team game to be a great spectator sport,  indeed, one might argue that it was the first great spectator game of any  sort as  opposed to a sport such as horse-racing,  running,  boxing  or  the more  … Continue reading →

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The mother of modern sport

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Robert Henderson

“We [the Coca Cola Championship] are the fourth best supported division in  Europe  with  nearly  10  million  fans  last  season,   after  the Premiership  [12.88 million],  Bundesliga [11.57 million] and  La  Liga [10.92].  We are ahead of Seria A.”   Lord Mahwinny,  Chairman  of  the … Continue reading →

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English Icons – an exercise in Anglophobic NuLabour propaganda

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Robert Henderson

Late  in 2005 a body  called Icons Online  launched a  website  English Icons  (www.icons.org.uk -the website is still up but is no longer being actively managed). The  organisation  was the creation of  the Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS). It  claimed … Continue reading →

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Harry Brown is very white

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Robert Henderson

Harry Brown Director: Daniel Barber Cast: Ben Drew, Charlie Creed-Miles, David Bradley, Emily Mortimer, Iain Glen, Jack O’Connell, Liam Cunningham, Michael Caine, Sean Harris   Harry Brown (Michael Caine) is an old man living on a council housing estate (public housing … Continue reading →

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What if there is no English Parliament?

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Robert Henderson

English resentment will inevitably grow and have nowhere to go within the political system. The danger will be that people will turn to violence because they have no democratic means  of gaining national representation.  Suppose  no mainstream party takes up … Continue reading →

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