Football writer and architectural historian Simon Inglis will be speaking at Ipswich Town Hall on Thursday as part of Ipswich Museum s IPSWICH@PLAY Community Studies Project (7-9pm).
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To sanction (verb) something is to approve it; to impose sanctions (noun) is to stop something you disapprove of. So politicians might sanction (permit) the use of sanctions (forbidding) trade with a country they don’t, for the moment, happen to like very much.
OED definitions of the noun “sanction” involve penalties or coercion, typically to enforce a law or treaty. So you find “sanction-breaker” (quoted from the Guardian in connection with sanctions against Rhodesia in 1968). Rather chillingly, a draft 1993 addition to the dictionary includes a new definition: “sanction: in military intelligence, the permission to kill a particular individual.”
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The Rangers championship tale cannot begin with the first weekend of this season, but such was the multifaceted nature of the clubâs cataclysmic collapse that perhaps July 2012 and a Challenge Cup tie in Brechin is not a valid starting point either.
In the eyes of supporters who have looked on as Rangers â post-administration, liquidation and a level of reputational damage their worst enemies could only have fantasised over â the Premiership flag for 2020-21 absorbs years of pain.
Those fans are in many ways a more fascinating case study than the players who delivered this historic moment. Following Rangers, for so long about as difficult a life option as picking wellies over sandals in a snowstorm, suddenly involved domestic drudgery against Berwick, Annan and Montrose. In the background at Ibrox sat, to put it kindly, a series of highly unconvincing characters.
On This Day: 14 Feb 1925 - Buchan’s revenge in “Galloping Victory” for Sunderland over Everton
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Bob Kyle’s mid-1920s Sunderland team were rightly considered one of the strongest in English football, consistently finishing in the top three, but never quite replicating the glory of the 1912-13, when a youthful Charlie Buchan fired them to the League title.
It may have been the mid-point of part of a barren two decades for the club in terms of trophies, but such had been the excitement on both Wearside and Merseyside at the prospect of two of the country’s most famous names fighting it out in the FA Cup Second Round Proper Replay that over 45,000 spectators had packed into Roker Park for a 0-0 draw at the end of January, and then around 50,000 watched on at Goodison as the Toffees progressed with a narrow 2-1 victory on 4th February.