Comments on: FP Exclusive: David Winner on Brilliant Orange, Sculpting a Football Culture Book

By: A Love Letter to the Scissor Kick

A Love Letter to the Scissor Kick — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 16:27:29 +0000

[…] You are vivacious-verbosity condensed into a swoop of movement. Some people can see sound — the condition is called synesthesia. They see colours and patterns morph from music. To see you for who you truly are, they must be able to follow the story of movement. This is a perspective Professor Joseph Campbell was prescient to when he wrote Dance and Mythology. Football is, when one thinks about it, a tributary of both. […]

By: Anthony Siokos

Anthony Siokos — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 08:46:00 +0000

Superb article! One of my favourite books.

By: FP Exclusive: David Winner on The Johan Cruyff Democracy, Myth, Method and Madness

Fri, 23 Jun 2017 18:56:09 +0000

[…] look leaning on the shoulder of giants like David Winner, the author of Brilliant Orange. And the more we look, the more our eyes are filled with surprise. Again, and again. This time, we […]

By: FP Exclusive: David Winner deconstructs Football Superstitions, Symbolism, Myth of Ajax

Mon, 19 Jun 2017 17:05:38 +0000

[…] Neurotic History of Dutch Football, he must have had Barthes’ smiling ghost at his shoulder as he deconstructed the symbolism prevalent in Netherlands and in […]

By: FP Exclusive: David Winner on The Big Bang of Total Football, Anarchy and 1970's Ajax

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 19:09:56 +0000

[…] himself in. And if you read his book Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football or our feature on it, you’d know both yardsticks seemingly […]