Generation Zero Archives - Sibling Rivalry https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/tag/generation-zero/ How Mexico and the US Built the Most Contentious, Co-Dependent Feud in World Soccer Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:06:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Envy & Scorn Furnish this Rivalry with Curiously Intimate form of Codependence https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/28/envy-scorn-furnish-this-rivalry-with-curiously-intimate-form-of-codependence/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/28/envy-scorn-furnish-this-rivalry-with-curiously-intimate-form-of-codependence/#respond Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:42:08 +0000 https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/?p=4085 See below a brief excerpt from Chapter 1 of Sibling Rivalry, 400-odd words that help explain what 200 years of envy and scorn can do to a sporting rivalry. But first, a shout-out to photographer Tony Quinn, whose work is featured throughout the book. This image above captures the unalloyed bliss produced by yet another [...]

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]]> https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/11/28/envy-scorn-furnish-this-rivalry-with-curiously-intimate-form-of-codependence/feed/ 0 Requiem for Match of the Day (and The Sanctity of Unspoiled Endings) https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/02/14/requiem-for-match-of-the-day-the-sanctity-of-no-spoiled-endings/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/02/14/requiem-for-match-of-the-day-the-sanctity-of-no-spoiled-endings/#respond Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:29:21 +0000 https://genzero.halphillips.net/?p=3681 There’s a wonderfully prescient exchange in Whit Stillman’s 1990 film, “Metropolitan,” wherein the know-it-all main character is interrogated on all the works of literature he can’t stop referencing. “You don’t have to have read a book to have an opinion on it. I haven’t read the Bible either,” he reveals, by way of defending [...]

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]]> https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2025/02/14/requiem-for-match-of-the-day-the-sanctity-of-no-spoiled-endings/feed/ 0 Why Mainstreaming U.S. Soccer & The Dream Team Share a Movement https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2024/02/16/mainstreaming-of-u-s-soccer-paralleled-the-internationalization-of-american-sport/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2024/02/16/mainstreaming-of-u-s-soccer-paralleled-the-internationalization-of-american-sport/#respond Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:32:25 +0000 https://genzero.halphillips.net/?p=3848 During the late 1980s — when super powers went mono, mullets were fashionable, and iconic walls came crashing down — it was easy to miss the internationalization of American team sport. Yet this phenomenon took shape all through the first Bush Era, step by step, forever changing big hunks of the U.S. sporting landscape. The [...]

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]]> https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2024/02/16/mainstreaming-of-u-s-soccer-paralleled-the-internationalization-of-american-sport/feed/ 0 Stamford Bridge 1985: Standing With Away Fans & Other Mistakes https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2023/03/09/stamford-bridge-1985-standing-with-away-fans-other-mistakes/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2023/03/09/stamford-bridge-1985-standing-with-away-fans-other-mistakes/#respond Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:31:12 +0000 https://genzero.halphillips.net/?p=3706 Today, thanks to the stewardship of oligarchs both Russian and American, Stamford Bridge has been transformed into something of an all-seater jewel. I’ve heard older, more hidebound Chelsea FC fans deride it as a “bleedin’ galleria”. Back in the winter of 1985, when attending my first proper English match there, it was no such [...]

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