Philosophy of Football (Soccer)

Screenshot of 'Good games and penalty shootouts' by Emily Ryall

'Good Games and Penalty Shootouts'

This paper considers what makes football the 'beautiful game' and why penalty shootouts should not be part of it.

Book cover of The Aesthetics Poetics and Rhetoric of Soccer

Good Games as Athletic Beauty

This book chapter develops the argument set out in 'Good games and penalty shootouts' as to why football is rightly called the 'beautiful game'.

'The Beautiful Game Made Ugly'

Commissioned article for the Institute for Art and Ideas. November 2022.

Clip from Book cover Uno-Due

'Eye of the Beholder'

Commissioned chapter for Uno-Due, an Italian/English book on the Beautiful Game of Football. June 2021.