Club Heritage
What Financial Discipline Off the Pitch Protects
A club I followed closely for years spent three transfer windows signing exciting attacking players while quietly letting its...
Blog, page 18 of 19
Everything we have published, newest first. Tactics breakdowns, coaching notes, and the occasional disagreement with advice that sounds right but does not hold up on matchday.
Club Heritage
A club I followed closely for years spent three transfer windows signing exciting attacking players while quietly letting its...
Coaching Notes
A deflected winner in the eighty ninth minute gets called lucky by nearly everyone watching, including, most weeks, the...
Match Tactics
A corner that looks completely unrehearsed on television, three players drifting toward the near post as if by accident, is...
Player Development
A scout I worked alongside for two seasons kept a private rule that never made it into any official report: never recommend a...
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...