If you want to join the masse of idiots defending toxic leaders, go for it. Just remember, getting rid of them isn’t ruining the game. You are
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This feature is the second in a three-part series looking at why English football struggles to produce and develop creative midfielders, how it can learn from Spanish football’s success over the…
FOOTBALL IN INDIA IS GROWING ALL THE TIME. Right now, the place is abuzz with anticipation ahead of the Under-17 World Cup finals which are set to kick off in October, and…
YOU MAY BE HARD-PRESSED TO FIND MANY ENGLISH FOOTBALLERS willing to take the plunge and hurl themselves out of their comfort zones via a move to Brazil. While the country has great…
“Awareness is the most important thing in soccer.” Paul Dalglish makes this proclamation regularly to the players at Ottawa Fury, reminding them that it is often this skill that separates the best from…
Mark Roberts has been a professional footballer for 14 years, representing the likes of Crewe, Chester, Stevenage, Fleetwood and Cambridge, where he currently plies his trade. Join him for an exclusive look…
To talk about street football is to talk about the beautiful game at its core. It has connotations of getting back to basics, of the sort football fans, and stars, used to…
WATCH ENOUGH HIGH-LEVEL MATCHES and one begins to appreciate the complexity of true player development – or at the very least, acknowledge it. The problem, however, is that many mistake appreciating the…
SOME TIME AGO, not a particularly long time since, I felt the inclination to share via my Twitter feed, a quote from enigmatic Argentine football coach, Marcelo Bielsa. The quote I shared…
After Luis Enrique announced his seemingly inevitable resignation as Barcelona coach, he made a poignant statement: “The reason clearly had to do with the way of life I need to have in this…
As featured on Guardian Sport As Real Madrid’s Isco squeezed the ball through a helpless Tom Heaton’s legs, Spain did the unthinkable and completed a stupendous comeback to steal a draw after…
HAVE YOU EVER looked back at your life and wondered, ‘How did I get here?’ Although this may seem daunting, try to do that now. Trace back each aspect of your life…
Make no mistake, there is a battle going on. We are living in a world that is in danger of being overwhelmed by a tsunami of incoherence. A raging torrent of piffle…
At times – I think that it’d be fair to say – I harbour a tendency to overthink things. To look for meaning when perhaps none is there. To grasp at the…
Illustration by Alex Noriega WHEN I LEAVE my flat to go to work later on today, a number of events may occur. That number is, in fact, infinite. Some of these events…
Tim Lees profile (from Soccer School UK) Tim came through the academy system in England with both Bolton Wanderers and Everton as a youngster. He has over 300 appearances semi-professionally in England and in…
IT IS PROBABLY FAIR TO SAY that wealthy Bayern Munich’s recent, all-encompassing domination of German football has wrongly eclipsed the achievements of some of the Bundesliga’s other, less well-known sides. Indeed, over the…
IT’S EARLY EVENING on the west coast of Ireland when I pick up the phone to ring Anthony Hudson, New Zealand’s current trail-blazing international manager. Having taken the reigns in late 2014 in…