Fan Culture
Football Scarves and How the Matchday Tradition Began
You want a scarf for your first season ticket, and the club shop offers six of them at 18 to 25 pounds each, all looking...
Your team is 1-0 up with 20 minutes left, and every instinct on the bench says drop deeper, clear it long, and hold on. Then the equaliser arrives in the 88th minute from a cross you invited by sitting on your own six yard box.
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Fan Culture
You want a scarf for your first season ticket, and the club shop offers six of them at 18 to 25 pounds each, all looking...
Coaching Notes
Most touchline arguments in youth football start in August, not in the match where they finally boil over.
Club Heritage
Most fans can name their club's mascot but have no idea why a seven foot dinosaur, a monkey or a swan is dancing on the...
Youth Football
Most grassroots goalkeepers get the same training every week: stand in goal while the outfield players shoot.
Player Development
The final whistle goes, your under 11s have lost 4-1, and twelve children are walking towards you waiting to hear what you...
Match Tactics
Your team dominates the ball for 70 minutes, loses it once on the edge of the opposition box, and concedes a goal from a single...
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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.