@dranthonymay.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Sociology at BCU. I mainly research in sport.
How was everyone's 2025? I was fortunate enough to have two fellowships in the same Czech city, at the Universities of Brno and Brno Brookes.
05.12.2025 20:51 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A good line to remember for that tricky “do you have any flaws? question that interview panels seem keen on.
www.espncricinfo.com/story/brendo...
Neser and Boland are just landing it in the right spot and letting the ball do the work. England are obsessed with 90 mph bowlers, but for this series they would have been better off getting Joe Leach out of retirement.
07.12.2025 08:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Australia are going to get a visit from the pitch inspectors. Eight championship points docked for a substandard deck.
21.11.2025 11:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think whoever designed the new Blues ground has been listening to a lot of Pink Floyd.
20.11.2025 18:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There's often a chap (sometimes more than one) set up on my route to work, playing guitar. He has a mic, an amp and it seems like he has a small PA. If you are fully amplified, are you still a busker?
14.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Time will tell but this seems like it could be the next Grand Slam Track.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...
This is the first time I have genuinely never heard of the half time act. Not the performer's problem obviously, but a worrying development for me. This is clear a sign as any that I've crossed into middle age.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It turns out bowling ok in a novelty tournament isn’t really the prep you need for international cricket. On the plus side, quizmasters everywhere have a new question for their bank.
02.09.2025 17:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was in Tesco and they were playing the Liquidator over the PA. Might be the first time I've heard it without... I'll call them embellishments.
29.08.2025 16:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Graduation day today, our session is in a bit. I've already dropped by the Symphony Hall to see one of my dissertation students who rearranged their ceremony, due to a clash with Oasis at Wembley. I can think of some academics who would be more sympathetic with that than others.
25.07.2025 14:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Now the interim leader might be good, bad or indifferent but the thing that came to mind straight away is Ice Town.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
On the face of it this is a terrible waste of time, money and resource. However, put yourself in the shoes of a lecturer who can see HS2 from his office window, and needs examples of failed government policy for lectures. Every cloud.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Doing something funny with my hands while presenting @sportanthro.bsky.social conference last week. A good event and a very welcoming crowd.
08.06.2025 13:51 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In a study of UK police sergeants, Scott Banks and @dranthonymay.bsky.social examine the impact of New Public Management strategies on policing, using semi-structured interviews to explore their managerial challenges www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
02.05.2025 00:27 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to seeing this. "Not a brand": hallelujah!
28.04.2025 12:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
...and this one is supervised by @dranthonymay.bsky.social alongside two colleagues from Criminology and Security Studies, @euanraffle.bsky.social and Dr Ryan O'Connor.
www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our...
I'm supervising a funded PhD. Nice. If you know of someone who might be a good fit for this project (link is below), feel free to pass it on to them. Euan and Ryan are both excellent, and it's a great opportunity all in all.
www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our...
I'm not sure "we're going to finish 14th but look at our stadium plans" is quite the sell they think it is.
12.03.2025 11:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New article out in Annals of Leisure Research which could be of interest if you're into one or more of security, football fan experience, perceptions of alcohol, and Brazil. Due credit must go to co-authors & BlueSky naysayers Buso, Bason, and Owen.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If the current decision makers had been on the Titanic, they would have responded to the iceberg by sacking the band.
25.02.2025 10:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Football fans will defend pretty much anything if their club does it, but it's still been a bit odd to see some people greeting the removal of free meals as some kind of management masterstroke.
25.02.2025 10:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Good to start the day by having an article accepted. Should hopefully be out soon, after we navigate the proofs…
This is a blatant academic brag for which I will do a good deed of some sort in penance.
Que sera sera…
18.02.2025 23:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It feels like a question for a grammar school exam. Calculate the size of pocket needed for a pigeon of size X assuming tilt at angle of Y. Show your workings.
13.02.2025 16:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This seems like it might depend on the size of the pocket.
12.02.2025 17:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was bored of the Champions League before it was cool.
30.01.2025 11:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Anyone who travels to that should get a medal, or maybe an intervention.
17.01.2025 16:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm misrepresenting the concept for my own purposes, but I'm still happy to claim six degrees of separation from Einstein.
16.01.2025 11:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Chat GPT was launched in 2022. And we’re expected to believe that in three years all the problems with AI have been solved and it is now the solution to all our problems. Dogmatic ideology that has massive potential for social and environmental harm
13.01.2025 11:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
