Football Concepts
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Football Concepts
Part 2 : Attackers’ Confidence
The second shift is from proactive to reactive play. Confidence lets attackers gamble, creating a tendency to attack crosses before…
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Analysis
Part 1 : Attackers’ Confidence
Confidence in an attacker is not arrogance, and it is not bravado. It is the absence of internal negotiation. When…
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Analysis
The Inner Circle Problem: Family, Agents And A Dressing Room Crisis
At elite level, the dressing room functions like a sealed environment. Information is currency, and control of that information is…
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General Football
Footballing Concepts : WAGs
The modern “WAG” narrative did not begin organically. It was created, named, and amplified during the 2006 World Cup in…
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General Football
Football’s Global Proxy
Modern football support is no longer a closed loop between club and matchday fan. What I see now is a…
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Football Concepts
Superstitions Around Jersey Numbers
I have always believed jersey numbers carry memory. Not metaphorical memory, but lived memory, the kind that lingers in stadiums…
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Analysis
Footballing Concepts : Half-time Talks
Half-time is often described as a tactical reset, but that makes it sound cleaner and calmer than it really is.…
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Analysis
Part 2 : The Evolution Of The Libero
“… Arrigo Sacchi’s Milan did not just introduce zonal marking, they enforced it with almost ideological discipline”. I think this…
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Analysis
Part 1 : The Evolution Of The Libero
Some of us have only seen or heard about the Libero while playing Football Manager. It exists there as a…
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Analysis
The Player To Pundit Conundrum
The transition from the pitch to the studio is often framed as a natural career progression, but it is anything…
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