Having just read your book Outcasts, I felt compelled to contact you and congratulate you on such an illuminating and well researched book, which has been immensely informative with great background information and although much of to which you refer regarding particularly Jersey, Channel Islands, Island Games and Gibraltar was already known generally to me it factually fills in many gaps!My interest? Well I was quite gobsmacked to get a mention as the new JFA President to whom you refer and getting international status for Jersey is in many respects my holy grail! so we have a lot of common interests and I would love the opportunity to speak with you and perhaps invite you to Jersey to do an interview and get a first hand view of where we now at and where we trying to go. In the 18 months since my election together with that of a new Executive we have made quite a bit of progress including securing a 6 figure sponsorship deal to help develop our national team games programme. We have also gained support of FA Premier League Chairman who visited the island in May and have Geoff Thompson coming in January 9/10 which could be an opportune time for you to consider a visit. I am also good friends with Joey Nunez of Gibraltar and watching their progress re UEFA with interest. We are also looking to arrange a rematch of our Islands Games clash in Rhodes in November having gone out to Gibraltar in group stage not even by goal difference but a goal less scored having been 6 minutes away from knocking them out of the tournament in their very 1st game before they equalised at 1-1 and went onto win group by virtue of beating Menorca 2-1 as opposed to our 1-0 result in our 1st game.Anyway I'd be delighted to hear from you at rickyweir@gmail.com Ricky Weir
Hi Steve! I'm José Catalán, journalist of Spanish sport's newspaper Diario AS. I'm very keen on Outcasts! and everything about Non Fifa Federations. I'm writing a article about NF-Board, VIVA World Cup, ELF Cup... and, obviously, you and your book. Soon it will be published (if it´s your desire, i'll post yo a comment whent it happens).
I have to ask you some thing. It`s true that people in one oil plattform had applied to be a federation accepted in FIFA? I can`t believe it.
I really enjoyed your book and am quite keen to write about it and interview for my student magazine (Hullfire - University of Hull). My deadline is two weeks so I don't have an awful lot of time but hope you get this message and respond to it quickly enough so we can get the ball rolling.
The magazine is free and has a distribution of 3500 amongst the students at the University of Hull.
If you could contact me via email at: m.falconer@2005.hull.ac.uk I would very much appreciate it.
I have just finished reading your 'outcasts' book. Recently. I have been feeling a touch disillusioned with the footballing world, but your book has reminded me what supporting a football team, and indeed enjoying sport, is meant to be about.
The football I watch in the english conference is not the same anymore, the football i play isn't the same anymore. I started supporting Cambridge United as a kid, and they had a family atmosphere, and since our relegation to the conference I thought i would have become more involved, but our big club attitude, and lack of appreciation of the non-league scene has found me wondering!
Anyway, just wanted to say cheers for a great, motivating read really.
firstly, let me say how much I'm enjoying reading your book. It's an absolute pleasure to hear about so many characters in so many parts of the world. I am particularly into the connection between football and identity and your book has me enthralled...
I'm a reporter from BBC World Service and I'd like your advice on a story I'm trying to get commissioned. Would you mind emailing me back at mani_djazmi@hotmail.com so I can tell you more?
Halo Steve, first congratulation for your book, I think these argouments are very interesting. I'm a member of CENF (Media Relations Director) so I'm wondeing if you are interested to write an article about us on World Soccer Magazine. However I hope to have with you a relation in the near future. My e-mail is: daniele.fiore@cenf.eu
My name is Spyros Chatzigiannis and I'm a Greek journalist living in London. I've done some articles about English footbal(reportage of Liverpool fans before the 2007 Champ.League final,reportage for the different tribes of Chelsea fans before this year's game with the Greek team Olympiakos -we played like hypnotized cocckroaches during the St.Bridge English-Greek battle,I'm an Olympiakos fan...)and as I'm originally a sociologist I write about all forms of modern urban culture(graffiti, hiphop, football, politics, music etc...).At the moment my editor has asked me if I could find s.th alternative related to the Euro2008 and your book and your knowledge of tournaments like the Europedeana in Switzerland looks absolutely perfect!!!Is there any possibility to give us an interview for your book and these football events at any time between today and Monday morning?We close the 8th of June edition of our Sunday magazine 'E' on Monday night so that's the latest I can make it, in order for me to have time to translate and write it...The newspaper is 'Eleftherotypia' www.enet.gr and it's the 2nd-3rd biggest selling paper in Greece, sort of the Greek Independent(progressive/new left...) I write for it's Sunday magazine 'E'. We would really-really appreciate it if you could help us and i think my style of writing can expose nicely your work and ideas to the brains of the European nation which shocked Europe in 2004!Perhaps your research can give another type of shock to the Greek football fans!!!
My email is spysun04@gmail.com
If you Google my full name you'll find a Nov'07 interview of mine with Mark Simpson(the godfather of the word metrosexual for David Beckham...) that appears in his website to check my questions style...
Hello, my name is Irina. email is igalushko@rttv.ru really want to find out more about VIVA and the upcoming Championship. i represent a Russian tv channel, and this story is of particular interest to us. thanks in advance!
Hi Steve, I am at present completing a Masters Thesis on International Relations and Football(Nation Building being the focus) and was wondering if I could do a brief interview with you? Let me know if this would be possible. Thanks. Brian O'Connell. e-mail: connell.briano@gmail.com
my name is brian and i'm a reporter to the kosov@ post, the fist and only english language paper in independent kosovo.
i'm working on a piece for the nest issue (weekly) about the aborted kosovo national vs brazil olympic team match in geneva.
i interviewed the national team head coach edmond rugova yesterday and he told me about you book, (which i will order a copy of today at my local english language book store).
but i'm hoping you'll give me a few minutes of your time to enlighten me out of my state of ignorance.
my name is Daniele Fiore, I am the Media Relations Director of the Confederation of European New Federations (CENF). As you maybe know we mounthly publish a newsletter talking about news and informations about the non-FIFA football. From the next newsletter we will start to publish interviews to people involved in football governing bodies and football associations. We will be very happy to see also your interview published soon. If you are interested answer to this stanza13@inwind.it e-mail address and I’ll provide to send soon a list of questions to you. Only for information you can take a look to our past newsletters on our official website (http://cenf.110mb.com/cenf.html).
Very interesting article about FIFA policy. Is it your? However if you want you can take a look to our Newsletter: http://www.cenf.110mb.com/newsletters/cenf2008-11-01.pdf , I wrote a similar article. If you'll read it I'll be happy to know what do you think about it (I'm italian so there will be some english mistakes! :). Thank you
My name is Bruno Cerboncini and I live in Brazil. I have heard of your book when searching about football in the Northern Marianas Islands. I really like the subject, and was wondering if Outcast has been published in Brazil and if so, who is the publisher. Otherwise how could I purchase the book from abroad?
Congratulations for this blog which is of particular interest to me. I am passionnate of the stories of these unrecognized national teams, and will definitely get a copy of your book. I personnaly lead a thread on a French forum that follows the qualification campaign for the 2010 World Cup. This thread is focusing - often humourously but always respectfully - on the tiniest nations, the ones who have absolutely no chance to qualify, but try hard. If you can read French, please have a look at it here : http://www.kamouloxdufoot.com/kdf/viewtopic.php?t=3105
Your blog states that you released for WS an article about Tuvalu's national team during the 2007's South Pacific Games. I'd love to read it and hopefully undestand why this fully independant country wasn't allowed to side a FIFA-recognized team ? Could you tell me where I can find it ?
I'm trying to start a team to represent the District of Columbia. The point is to bring light to the fact that DC residents don't have representation in federal government. If DC has similar legal status to other US territories such as Puerto Rico that have their own teams then DC should be able to have their own team as well. I have just now learned about your book so I have not read it. But you seem to be the non-FIFA expert so I was wondering if you would mind getting in touch to sorta help me figure out how to put this together. Whatever I know about non-FIFA football is mainly from wikipedia. My email is mweisel(at)gwmail.gwu.com. Thanks
My name is Paul Watson and I am the coach of the Pohnpei football team. I would love the chance to chat with you. If you get the chance could you email pohnpeisoccer@gmail.com.
From a national radio station in South AFrica, WC hosting nation. We'd love to chat to you on radio about your book Outcast. Contact me chumakave@gmail.com
This blog is about those footballing nations not recognised by FIFA. I've written about them in my book, "Outcasts!", which was shortlisted for the National Sporting Club football book of the year award in 2008 and is published by Know The Score Books.
I'm a freelance journalist and regular contributor to World Soccer.
Blog traffic: More than 3,000 visitors to this blog since July 2007
"Outcasts! The Lands That FIFA Forgot" examines the much tarnished reputation of FIFA, the governing body of world football, and just how they justify the exclusion of some 'nations' from their organisation while welcoming others. For two years, I traced the incredible journeys of the teams that FIFA refuse to recognise - either for reasons of political expediency, or because FIFA just believed they could not compete with the likes of Montserrat on the world stage.
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Having just read your book Outcasts, I felt compelled to contact you and congratulate you on such an illuminating and well researched book, which has been immensely informative with great background information and although much of to which you refer regarding particularly Jersey, Channel Islands, Island Games and Gibraltar was already known generally to me it factually fills in many gaps!My interest? Well I was quite gobsmacked to get a mention as the new JFA President to whom you refer and getting international status for Jersey is in many respects my holy grail! so we have a lot of common interests and I would love the opportunity to speak with you and perhaps invite you to Jersey to do an interview and get a first hand view of where we now at and where we trying to go. In the 18 months since my election together with that of a new Executive we have made quite a bit of progress including securing a 6 figure sponsorship deal to help develop our national team games programme. We have also gained support of FA Premier League Chairman who visited the island in May and have Geoff Thompson coming in January 9/10 which could be an opportune time for you to consider a visit. I am also good friends with Joey Nunez of Gibraltar and watching their progress re UEFA with interest. We are also looking to arrange a rematch of our Islands Games clash in Rhodes in November having gone out to Gibraltar in group stage not even by goal difference but a goal less scored having been 6 minutes away from knocking them out of the tournament in their very 1st game before they equalised at 1-1 and went onto win group by virtue of beating Menorca 2-1 as opposed to our 1-0 result in our 1st game.Anyway I'd be delighted to hear from you at rickyweir@gmail.com
Ricky Weir
Hi Steve,
I wondered whether I might be able to interview you for Manx Radio in the Isle of Man about our mention in your book: I'm jason.roberts@manxradio.com
Regards,
Jason Roberts
Hi Steve! I'm José Catalán, journalist of Spanish sport's newspaper Diario AS. I'm very keen on Outcasts! and everything about Non Fifa Federations. I'm writing a article about NF-Board, VIVA World Cup, ELF Cup... and, obviously, you and your book. Soon it will be published (if it´s your desire, i'll post yo a comment whent it happens).
I have to ask you some thing. It`s true that people in one oil plattform had applied to be a federation accepted in FIFA? I can`t believe it.
Thanks and congratullations four your job!
I'm sorry, I forgot to leave you my email adress:
jvcatalan@diarioas.es
I'll be pleased if I can help you in something
Hi Steve,
I really enjoyed your book and am quite keen to write about it and interview for my student magazine (Hullfire - University of Hull). My deadline is two weeks so I don't have an awful lot of time but hope you get this message and respond to it quickly enough so we can get the ball rolling.
The magazine is free and has a distribution of 3500 amongst the students at the University of Hull.
If you could contact me via email at:
m.falconer@2005.hull.ac.uk
I would very much appreciate it.
All the best,
Mark
Steve,
I have just finished reading your 'outcasts' book. Recently. I have been feeling a touch disillusioned with the footballing world, but your book has reminded me what supporting a football team, and indeed enjoying sport, is meant to be about.
The football I watch in the english conference is not the same anymore, the football i play isn't the same anymore. I started supporting Cambridge United as a kid, and they had a family atmosphere, and since our relegation to the conference I thought i would have become more involved, but our big club attitude, and lack of appreciation of the non-league scene has found me wondering!
Anyway, just wanted to say cheers for a great, motivating read really.
Mark Case
markgcase@yahoo.co.uk
Hi Steve,
firstly, let me say how much I'm enjoying reading your book. It's an absolute pleasure to hear about so many characters in so many parts of the world. I am particularly into the connection between football and identity and your book has me enthralled...
I'm a reporter from BBC World Service and I'd like your advice on a story I'm trying to get commissioned. Would you mind emailing me back at mani_djazmi@hotmail.com so I can tell you more?
Cheers
Mani
Halo Steve, first congratulation for your book, I think these argouments are very interesting.
I'm a member of CENF (Media Relations Director) so I'm wondeing if you are interested to write an article about us on World Soccer Magazine. However I hope to have with you a relation in the near future. My e-mail is: daniele.fiore@cenf.eu
Thanks
Dear Steve
My name is Spyros Chatzigiannis and I'm a Greek journalist living in London. I've done some articles about English footbal(reportage of Liverpool fans before the 2007 Champ.League final,reportage for the different tribes of Chelsea fans before this year's game with the Greek team Olympiakos -we played like hypnotized cocckroaches during the St.Bridge English-Greek battle,I'm an Olympiakos fan...)and as I'm originally a sociologist I write about all forms of modern urban culture(graffiti, hiphop, football, politics, music etc...).At the moment my editor has asked me if I could find s.th alternative related to the Euro2008 and your book and your knowledge of tournaments like the Europedeana in Switzerland looks absolutely perfect!!!Is there any possibility to give us an interview for your book and these football events at any time between today and Monday morning?We close the 8th of June edition of our Sunday magazine 'E' on Monday night so that's the latest I can make it, in order for me to have time to translate and write it...The newspaper is 'Eleftherotypia' www.enet.gr and it's the 2nd-3rd biggest selling paper in Greece, sort of the Greek Independent(progressive/new left...) I write for it's Sunday magazine 'E'. We would really-really appreciate it if you could help us and i think my style of writing can expose nicely your work and ideas to the brains of the European nation which shocked Europe in 2004!Perhaps your research can give another type of shock to the Greek football fans!!!
My email is spysun04@gmail.com
If you Google my full name you'll find a Nov'07 interview of mine with Mark Simpson(the godfather of the word metrosexual for David Beckham...) that appears in his website to check my questions style...
With Respect
Spyros Chatzigiannis
Hello, my name is Irina.
email is igalushko@rttv.ru
really want to find out more about VIVA and the upcoming Championship.
i represent a Russian tv channel, and this story is of particular interest to us.
thanks in advance!
Hi Steve,
I am at present completing a Masters Thesis on International Relations and Football(Nation Building being the focus) and was wondering if I could do a brief interview with you? Let me know if this would be possible. Thanks. Brian O'Connell. e-mail: connell.briano@gmail.com
hey steve:
my name is brian and i'm a reporter to the kosov@ post, the fist and only english language paper in independent kosovo.
i'm working on a piece for the nest issue (weekly) about the aborted kosovo national vs brazil olympic team match in geneva.
i interviewed the national team head coach edmond rugova yesterday and he told me about you book, (which i will order a copy of today at my local english language book store).
but i'm hoping you'll give me a few minutes of your time to enlighten me out of my state of ignorance.
my email address is:
brian.kosovapost@gmail.com
please and thank you.
b
Dear Steve Menary,
my name is Daniele Fiore, I am the Media Relations Director of the Confederation of European New Federations (CENF). As you maybe know we mounthly publish a newsletter talking about news and informations about the non-FIFA football. From the next newsletter we will start to publish interviews to people involved in football governing bodies and football associations. We will be very happy to see also your interview published soon. If you are interested answer to this stanza13@inwind.it e-mail address and I’ll provide to send soon a list of questions to you.
Only for information you can take a look to our past newsletters on our official website (http://cenf.110mb.com/cenf.html).
Thanks for your attention and see you soon,
Daniele Fiore, CENF Media Relations Director
Very interesting article about FIFA policy. Is it your?
However if you want you can take a look to our Newsletter: http://www.cenf.110mb.com/newsletters/cenf2008-11-01.pdf , I wrote a similar article. If you'll read it I'll be happy to know what do you think about it (I'm italian so there will be some english mistakes! :). Thank you
Daniele Fiore, CENF
Hi
My name is Bruno Cerboncini and I live in Brazil. I have heard of your book when searching about football in the Northern Marianas Islands. I really like the subject, and was wondering if Outcast has been published in Brazil and if so, who is the publisher. Otherwise how could I purchase the book from abroad?
Hope to hear you soon.
Best wishes,
Bruno
I didn't provide my e-mail: bruno.cerboncini@gmail.com
Best wishes,
Bruno
Dear Mr Menary,
Congratulations for this blog which is of particular interest to me. I am passionnate of the stories of these unrecognized national teams, and will definitely get a copy of your book. I personnaly lead a thread on a French forum that follows the qualification campaign for the 2010 World Cup. This thread is focusing - often humourously but always respectfully - on the tiniest nations, the ones who have absolutely no chance to qualify, but try hard. If you can read French, please have a look at it here : http://www.kamouloxdufoot.com/kdf/viewtopic.php?t=3105
Your blog states that you released for WS an article about Tuvalu's national team during the 2007's South Pacific Games. I'd love to read it and hopefully undestand why this fully independant country wasn't allowed to side a FIFA-recognized team ? Could you tell me where I can find it ?
Best regards,
Charlie
matthieu.cham@gmail.com
Steve,
I'm trying to start a team to represent the District of Columbia. The point is to bring light to the fact that DC residents don't have representation in federal government. If DC has similar legal status to other US territories such as Puerto Rico that have their own teams then DC should be able to have their own team as well.
I have just now learned about your book so I have not read it. But you seem to be the non-FIFA expert so I was wondering if you would mind getting in touch to sorta help me figure out how to put this together. Whatever I know about non-FIFA football is mainly from wikipedia.
My email is mweisel(at)gwmail.gwu.com. Thanks
Hi Steve,
My name is Paul Watson and I am the coach of the Pohnpei football team. I would love the chance to chat with you. If you get the chance could you email pohnpeisoccer@gmail.com.
Best wishes
Paul
From a national radio station in South AFrica, WC hosting nation. We'd love to chat to you on radio about your book Outcast. Contact me chumakave@gmail.com
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