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5 Things We Learned From This Past Week’s Fixtures
FootballBias looks at the 5 Things We Learned From This Past Week’s Fixtures. The week’s action across Europe’s major leagues…
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Part 2 : The Death Of The Player-manager
FootballBias continues to look at why the Player-manager role has gone extinct. Elite players today are high-performance machines. Recovery is…
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Part 1 : The Death Of The Player-manager
The player-manager is a version of football history that feels almost fictional now. The image of Gianluca Vialli in 1998…
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Tac-Talk : How Man United Beat Tottenham
The air at Old Trafford carried a unique gravity before kickoff, a silence that transitioned from the solemn commemoration of…
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Tac-Talk : How Barcelona Beat Mallorca
The 3–0 victory for Barcelona over Mallorca at the Spotify Camp Nou was an exercise in patient attrition, a performance…
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Part 2 : Player Peaks
Strikers offer the cleanest illustration of how player peaks shift rather than vanish. The traditional arc still exists. Early career…
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Part 1 : Player Peaks
For a long time, we’ve talked about player peaks as if they were a law of nature. You hit your…
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Where xG Ends and Finishing Begins
xG was never designed to describe greatness. It was designed to describe probability. That distinction matters, because most of the…
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Footballing Concepts : The Tactical Foul
The tactical foul is often misread as a loss of discipline. In reality, it is one of the most deliberate…
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8 Key Fixtures Across Europe’s Top 5 Leagues
The second weekend of February 2026 brings a definitive slate of matches across Europe’s top five leagues, where title ambitions…
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