Bonek dan Semangat Perjuangan
oleh: Andy Fuller Memang agak sulit menjadi seorang ‘pengamat sepakbola Indonesia’, kalau tinggal di luar Indonesia itu sendiri. Tetapi, derasnya berita dan posting di sosmed menjembatani jarak di antara ‘di luar’ dan ‘di dalam’ Indonesia. Aktivitas para Bonek dari Surabaya (dan di kota lain) sering mengingatkan saya betapa ramainya wacana sepakbola di Indonesia. Sepakbola memang […]
Bonek against gang violence
Yamadipati Seno, 6th February 2020. First published on Mojok. All of us already know that it is useless to rely on the police to solve the problem of klitih (roughly translatable as ‘gang violence’) in Jogja. The police take so long to act: perhaps because it is owing to bureaucracy or some other reason. Almost every […]
Bonek Writers Forum: Words are Weapons
by Oryza A. Wirawan. Originally published at Berita Jatim & Sejarah Persebaya How does a community of supporters try to encourage a critical understanding of football through writing? We can use the case of the Bonek Writers Forum (BWF), founded on 6th December 2017, as a means to understand this. This community has a fluid form. […]
Irene Gabriëlle Ergün & the privilege of being healthy
“it’s the subtle things that I get from my runs. I never come back without feeling different from at the beginning of my run. It makes me on one level physically satisfied for the rest of the day.” ** Running is so full of numbers. There is a proliferation of digits. Athletes are categorised by […]
Dominic Bersee
It’s a strangely warm Wednesday evening at Leiden Atletiek. The warm up consists of a gentle run through the Leidse Hout which neighbours the track. Running through the little woods of the Leidse Hout, I somehow fall into stride with Dominic and somehow we get talking about Sweat Elite – a running YouTube channel and […]
Maikel of Leiden
He’s probably one of the most famous folks in Leiden. If you bump into Maikel on a street in Leiden and start talking with him, within moments someone else he knows will walk by. And then a few moments later, someone else. And, then a little while later, another person. Sooner or later, if someone […]
Rotterdam Marathon Review
There are many ways to skin the marathon cat. Since joining the Richmond Harriers in 2018, I have been exposed to a training plan which values high weekly mileage. The main coach is Neil Ryan who ran a 2:17 marathon in 1974, which for the era, was a cracking time (and is still not to […]
Profile – Marco van Erp
The watery landscape of the Low Lands means that its cities are engineered to live with water: to accommodate it, rather than to combat it. Leiden is one such watery city and although it is part of the greater Randstad, it upholds its own proud identity: marked by the Siege of Leiden, its university, a […]
Vehicles for your feet
One of the outcomes of running most days of the is frequent visits to the running shoe shop. In Melbourne, my choice of shoe shops was simple: I would go to Neil Ryan’s shop in Kew: Runners World. It is at the top of a hill in a leafy eastern suburb. Not far from a […]
Running, always
There is a joke about amateur runners who are training for a marathon, it goes something like this: “How do you know if a friend of yours is doing a marathon?” The answer: “Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.” It is as if the mere act of signing up for such an event is worthy of […]