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Football Manager Training Schedules Next to a Real Microcycle
I lost a Saturday last season to a training week that looked perfect on a whiteboard.
Every under 12 coach knows the swarm. The ball goes left and nine children go left with it, the right side of the pitch empties, and the one child who stayed wide gets told off for "not being involved." I have spent years trying to explain...
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I lost a Saturday last season to a training week that looked perfect on a whiteboard.
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Scoring is the glamour, but seeing out a one-goal lead is where matches are quietly won and lost.
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The most common mistake young defenders make is the slide tackle they did not need.
Match Tactics
A few seasons ago the inverted fullback went from a quirk to a standard tool, and now you see it everywhere from elite sides to...
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Two goals down with twenty minutes left, and then the impossible starts to feel possible.
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The cup is football at its most dramatic. One bad night and you are out, a lower league side can topple a giant, and the whole...
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Three writers who come at football from different angles: one breaks down match tactics and substitutions, one writes about player and youth development from time spent on training grounds, and one covers fan culture and club history. Every article carries a byline, and every byline links to everything else that person has written.