England Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/england Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:41:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg England Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/england 32 32 English Football’s unique Global Following Grapples with yet Another Reality Check https://www.halphillips.net/grim-realities-for-english-football-and-its-global-following?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=grim-realities-for-english-football-and-its-global-following https://www.halphillips.net/grim-realities-for-english-football-and-its-global-following#respond Thu, 12 Jul 2018 14:15:44 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=3308 MOSCOW (July 12, 2018) — While their close neighbors and erstwhile enemies crow this morning over another anguished English exit from the World Cup, great swaths of the soccer-loving world suffer alongside the Albion faithful. Some of this cooperative hand-wringing is due to the sheer size of the cultural footprint left by the mother country, […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/grim-realities-for-english-football-and-its-global-following/feed 0 Welsh Golf Exceeds the Hype in Unexpected, Arthurian Ways https://www.halphillips.net/welsh-golf-exceeds-the-hype-in-unexpected-ways?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=welsh-golf-exceeds-the-hype-in-unexpected-ways https://www.halphillips.net/welsh-golf-exceeds-the-hype-in-unexpected-ways#respond Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:36:26 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=213 HARLECH, Wales (July 13, 2017) — The British Open is nearly underway and, while there are myriad reasons to visit the U.K. with your golf clubs, none of them have much to do with British Open venues. Look at Wales, located right next door to this year’s host, Royal Birkdale — to all of England, if […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/welsh-golf-exceeds-the-hype-in-unexpected-ways/feed 0 Coats, Ties and Foursomes: UK College Golf in the ’80s was a Breed Apart https://www.halphillips.net/coat-ties-and-foursomes-uk-college-golf-is-a-breed-apart?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coat-ties-and-foursomes-uk-college-golf-is-a-breed-apart https://www.halphillips.net/coat-ties-and-foursomes-uk-college-golf-is-a-breed-apart#comments Fri, 05 May 2017 07:39:57 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=90 SUGAR GROVE, Ill. (May 5, 2017) — For all the trans-Atlantic DNA we share with our British cousins, it’s easy and, I daresay, natural to assume that UK college golf is pretty much a comp for the exercise here in the U.S. Not so. Not today, not forty years ago when I played for the […]

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