International audience The article characterizes the football match reports published in Sports Review in 1921. Ananalysis of the material collected reveals a number of characteristics in the interwar text, i.e., limitedimagery, concreteness/discursive juxtaposition, the use of the present tense in describing the game,open (sometimes expressive) evaluation of the individual players’ performance and the teams’ abilities,as well as a missionary style of reporting, in which the journalist takes up universal issues regardingfootball, sports and physical culture. The analysis outlines the differences between old-timeand contemporary realizations of the genre.