**Austerity: The Global Trend That’s Tighter Than Your Jeans After Thanksgiving** Alright, folks, let’s talk about a term that’s been making waves globally, and no, it’s not the latest TikTok dance craze. It’s “austerity,” and it’s not as fun as it sounds. In fact, it’s about as fun as a root canal on a Monday…
Real Oviedo: Spain’s 96-Year-Old Relegation Survivor Becomes a Global Parable on How Not to Run Anything By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, somewhere between Gijón and existential despair Oviedo, Asturias – While the planet debates whether AI will replace us before the oceans finish the job, a modest club in northern Spain is quietly…
The Bournemouth–Newcastle Rivalry, or How a Seaside Town and a Former Mining Hub Accidentally Became Emblems of Late-Stage Capitalism By Santiago “Sam” Delgado, International Correspondent-at-Large, Dave’s Locker It began, as all modern catastrophes do, on a spreadsheet. In 2009, AFC Bournemouth—then languishing in League Two, a division so obscure that even its own highlights package…
