Kat LucasChristian Eriksen and the healing power of timeIt’s not yet seven months since Christian Eriksen first touched down in Milan.Aug 22, 2020Aug 22, 2020
Kat LucasHome? Football and the refugee crisisOctober 1956. On the streets of Budapest, Ferenc Puskas died at the hands of Soviet forces. According to reports widely shared around the…Aug 16, 2020Aug 16, 2020
Kat LucasThe politics of statuesIn 2015, the Cambridge student paper Varsity wrote up a study orchestrated by VoucherCodesPro that suggested 59% of the British public…Jun 8, 2020Jun 8, 2020
Kat LucasRecovery? Football isn’t ready to give up its toxic relationship with gamblingIn cricket, it’s the soft, deft click of leather on willow. Yet the new football season begins to a rather different sound; the roar of…Aug 3, 2019Aug 3, 2019
Kat LucasThe 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup is in danger of going down in history as a missed opportunityNice, France, far in land, where the concrete jungle meets the so-called avenue of trees. Keep going, and you’ll arrive at the towering…Jun 19, 2019Jun 19, 2019
Kat LucasEdges of glory: The Tottenham-Ajax allegiance and the story of 1981This is the moment.Apr 30, 2019Apr 30, 2019
Kat LucasIf sanitising English football hasn’t deterred the hooligans — what has it achieved?Whenever we cry, “the game’s gone!”, what is it we’re actually talking about? Dressing room selfies. Sleeve sponsors. Children wielding A3…Mar 11, 2019Mar 11, 2019