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Tag: Boxing Day

December 25, 2020December 30, 2020Neil Fredrik Jensen

Yuletide football, as idealised as a white Christmas

IT was the day after the day after Christmas Day in 1977 and Chelsea were playing West Ham United at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea had won 2-1 and the West Ham fans had been kept in the ground, the usual post-match ritual. This was, after all, the heyday of football hooliganism, tribal battles and non-stop taunting […]

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December 21, 2019Neil Fredrik Jensen

Yuletide football, as idealised as a white Christmas

IT was the day after the day after Christmas Day and Chelsea were playing West Ham United at Stamford Bridge. 40 years ago. Chelsea had won 2-1 and the West Ham fans had been kept in the ground, the usual post-match ritual. This was, after all, the heyday of football hooliganism, tribal battles and non-stop […]

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December 27, 2016December 27, 2016Neil Fredrik Jensen

Amid Boxing Day’s cobwebs…opportunity lingers

  BOXING DAY is a strange football occasion. People hand out greetings as if they haven’t seen each other for decades, talking about a single day’s eating and drinking to excess as if it was a once-in-a-lifetime event and men bring their wives to football for the one and only time in the season. It’s […]

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December 27, 2014December 26, 2014Neil Fredrik Jensen

The Secret Footballer becomes the Invisible Man

A drizzly, cold Boxing Day and a local derby between Hitchin Town and their near neighbours Arlesey Town. There were many reasons not to go: Cold Turkey ( and I don’t mean the Plastic Ono Band), TV, the Hobbit on DVD and after all, there was a whole weekend of possible football viewing to consider […]

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Game of the People is edited by Neil Jensen, an experienced corporate and football writer published in more than 40 publications worldwide.

In his career, Neil has been a magazine editor, website editor, speechwriter, advertising copy writer and ghost writer. He is a member of the Football Writers’ Association and the Football Collective and a Freeman of the City of London. He is also a columnist with the Non-League Paper and Football Weekends and Chief Executive Officer of Isherwood Editorial.

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