Archive
Sixteen pieces, seven sections, laid out properly
The whole roster. The front page carries an edit of it; this page carries all of it.
The genre runs on a four-year clock
- Everyone knows the date, and that changes what gets made Four-Year Clock
- Awards decided what counted as a good football film Four-Year Clock
1998, and an advert better remembered than the final
- A departure lounge, a squad, and no pitch at all 1998
- The biggest campaign of the tournament, and its strangest final 1998
2002, and a tournament inside a cage
- A cage, eight teams, and Cantona keeping score 2002
- Adidas answered with a park kickabout and ten internationals 2002
2010, when the form got a feature director
- Iñárritu shot a football advert like a feature 2010
- Thirty-six orange dresses and a formal complaint 2010
2014, when they stopped shooting the players
- Nike animated the players instead of shooting them 2014
- Three minutes, two brands, and a statue 2014
What makes the shoot difficult
- The players are not actors and the schedule knows it The Shoot
- The ball has to behave, and it usually does not The Shoot
- It has to work with the sound off, in nine languages The Shoot