Player Development
How Players Who Improve Consistently Manage Their Training Week
There is a pattern visible in players who keep improving after the academy years, through the junior-senior transition and into...
After every tournament knockout decided on penalties, someone in the pub says the same thing: it is a lottery. The losing manager usually says it too, in the press conference.
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Player Development
There is a pattern visible in players who keep improving after the academy years, through the junior-senior transition and into...
Player Development
A sixteen year old I was working with two seasons ago had every physical marker a scout wants to see.
Club Heritage
A club historian I interviewed for a completely different piece last year mentioned, almost as an aside, that the training...
Fan Culture
I went to a lower league away fixture two winters ago mostly because a source had promised me a good quote about a badge...
Youth Football
A grassroots club near where I did some of my early coaching lost its Sunday morning fixtures for an entire month two seasons...
Fan Culture
I spent an afternoon a few years back with the matchday sound operator at a mid table club my family has followed for three...
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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.