Coaching Notes
How a Pre-Season Really Shapes the First Ten League Games
A rough pre-season rarely announces itself with a bad result early on, since preseason friendlies are notoriously unreliable...
Match tactics and analysis writer
Callum spent years coaching at semi-professional level before moving to writing full time. He watches matches back at half speed more often than he would like to admit, and writes about tactics the way he used to explain them to his own squad.
Coaching Notes
A rough pre-season rarely announces itself with a bad result early on, since preseason friendlies are notoriously unreliable...
Match Tactics
We once had sixty eight percent possession against a team sitting in a deep, compact low block, completed over six hundred...
Match Tactics
The first time I switched a struggling team to a back three midseason, I expected the biggest change to show up in defense,...
Match Tactics
A corner that looks completely unrehearsed on television, three players drifting toward the near post as if by accident, is...
Match Tactics
By the time a commentator says a team has grown into the match, that team's own players have usually felt it for several...
Match Tactics
I once sat on a bench for eleven minutes deciding whether to bring on a fresh winger against a full back who was visibly out of...