Football Concepts
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Footballing Concepts: Champions’ Luck
I have always found “Champions’ Luck” to be one of the most loaded phrases in football. It usually shows up…
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Footballing Concepts : Tournament Specialists
I think the easiest way to understand the “tournament specialist” is to accept that tournament football is not a smaller…
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Part 2 : Football, Hatewatching And Schadenfreude
If you want to see how schadenfreude sustains itself over time, you do not need to look at a single…
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Part 1 : Football, Hatewatching And Schadenfreude
This piece is not really about football in the traditional sense. It is about why I, and millions of others,…
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Footballing Concepts : The Purple Patch
Just about every season, there is a moment when a player catches fire. Shots from awkward angles fly into the…
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Footballing Concepts : “Streets Won’t Forget” Players
When I think about certain players, I do not think about their numbers first. I think about moments. A goal,…
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The “Lottery” Of Penalties
Whenever a team loses on penalties, the same phrase appears almost immediately. Managers shrug, players sigh, and someone eventually says…
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The Shoulder Drop
Some dribbles in football are built on flair, stepovers, elasticos, rainbow flicks. The shoulder drop is the opposite. It is…
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Part 2 : The Rebuild
Another major shift in the rebuild is the move toward buying profiles rather than reputations. A rebuild works best when…
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Part 1 : The Rebuild
When I think about a football rebuild, I often come back to the old philosophical puzzle known as the Ship…
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