Category: Modern Football

Why football is political and what a game in 1929 has to do with it

Posted on 2022-09-262022-09-30 by Petra

Football is a burning glass of society and thus cannot be apolitical. At least not if one uses today’s concept

Fellowes’ The English Game – how true is the story?

Posted on 2022-09-082022-09-05 by Petra

The new mini-series by Julian Fellowes, The English Game, is available on Netflix since 20 March 2020. As already announced

Five myths of German football history: What’s true, what’s fiction?

Posted on 2022-08-082022-09-30 by Petra

The ball is round. A game lasts 90 minutes. Whoever scores more goals wins. And in the end it’s always

Victoria College in Bingen on the Rhine: Call for Research

Posted on 2022-08-012022-09-30 by Petra

N.B. – The full article is published on Playing Pasts, see link below Bingen on the Rhine is not only

Modern Football in Germany (pt. 2): Modern Football & Professionalisation

Posted on 2022-06-302022-06-30 by Petra

This is the second part of the series and looks at how modern football and professionalisation are linked in German

Modern Football in Germany (pt. 1)

Posted on 2022-06-232022-06-30 by Petra

“Modern football” is a buzzword. A buzzword with predominantly negative connotations in times of wobbling 50+1, increasing commercialisation, fragmented match

Why there is still no German champion in 1922?

Posted on 2022-06-202022-09-30 by Petra

The 21/22 season is over, the champion has been crowned. At least this statement is true for the 2021/22 season.

The European Super League: History does not repeat itself, it rhymes

Posted on 2022-05-202022-06-30 by Petra

A one-man show in football, but one that collapses just as quickly as it started. What fits the 60-hour European

Simon Rosenberger

Posted on 2022-05-202022-06-16 by Petra

Throughout his life, Simon Rosenberger was one of the best-known people in German football and in many ways a man