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World Cup USA ‘94 in many ways has symbolised a mode of television coverage of sporting events beyond the continent of North America. For instance, the idea that events such as the World Cup will, in future, only be available on satellite or cable television is already an eventuality which citizens in Britain are having to contemplate as traditional terrestrial broadcasting continues to lose out in the competition for live events, confirming Sky as ‘both the paymaster and ringmaster’ of soccer (Fynn and Davidson, 1996).

But there is something naive about having a category called the ‘assist’. So and so did 64 assists in such and such a season. There’s something naive and not necessary about that. I don’t really want the game to change very much. Obviously it changes before your very eyes, but a wet Saturday afternoon in the pouring rain with the pitch cutting up and players falling all over the place and mistakes being made is wonderful. Nothing better. Standing uncovered. Wonderful. Writer Paul Morley, interviewed for the same Granada TV programme, also wished to resist ‘modernisation’ in the form of all-seater stadia: PAUL MORLEY I mean, for me—safety wise—I wouldn’t want to sit down.

Tarantino, famed for his scripts and filming for Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, has been in major dispute with Stone over the eventual translation of Tarantino’s ‘tauter and leaner’ script into the director’s film. Nevertheless, what Tarantino in his ‘pulp theory’ actually does is to reflect a ‘post-postmodern’ attitude. His multiple references are to other films, or remakes of other films, and all the other facets of accelerated pop culture— videos, fast food, drugs, pop music, MTV, computer games, and so on.