Category Archives: Sport

Picture this #7 – The Dirtiest Race

Posted on July 24, 2012 by PopLifer

When Ben Johnson smiles children cry. If a 116 year old tradition, based on an ideal which stretches over millennia, has a villain, it is Johnson.  He broods, he scowls –  he is the convenient symbol behind which hundreds of similar … Continue reading →

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Perfect Timing

Posted on July 23, 2012 by PopLifer

London 2012 is about to begin amid guffaws about bus drivers getting lost and indignation over security cock-ups. You couldn’t have made it up. Well, they did actually*. The almost perfect Twenty Twelve is about to conclude on Tuesday. This is … Continue reading →

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Picture this #3

Posted on July 21, 2012 by PopLifer

An 18 year old Cassius Clay receives his gold medal in Rome 1960 – an image overloaded with magnificently sinister backlighting and potent foreshadowing (see below). Clay, wide eyed, smiling – a boy standing tall above men. And what men … Continue reading →

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Introducing the blog

Posted on July 12, 2012 by PopLifer

If you could run this music in the background that would be appropriate. Hello there. We are Neil and Chris, though we are not the Pet Shop Boys, they are just our pseudonyms. Nor are we in any way affiliated to the … Continue reading →

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