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Frequently Asked Questions

Short answers to the questions readers send IW Kaiyun most often, plus where to write if yours is not covered here.

Do you cover betting odds or match predictions?

No. This site covers tactics, player development, coaching, and fan culture, not betting advice or odds. Anyone looking for wagering content should look elsewhere, that is simply not what we write.

What level of football do you write about?

Mostly professional and academy football, with regular pieces on grassroots and youth coaching as well. We try to write about principles that hold at any level, not just top-flight tactics.

Why do some articles disagree with common coaching advice?

Because some advice that sounds right in a coaching manual does not hold up once you watch enough real matches or training sessions. We would rather say that plainly than repeat generic advice for its own sake.

How often do you publish new articles?

When a piece is actually ready and worth publishing, so the gap between articles is not fixed. Everything we have published stays readable in the blog archive, and pieces get dated updates when the advice in them changes.

Do you accept player or club submissions?

We are not currently taking outside submissions, but readers are welcome to reach out through the contact page with corrections or story ideas.

Some outbound links are commercial in nature and this is disclosed in our editorial policy, but it does not change how plainly we write about something that is not working.

Who writes the tactics breakdowns?

Mostly Callum Ashworth, who coached at semi-professional level before writing full time, though player development and youth pieces come from Priya Nandakumar and fan culture pieces from Dario Bianchi.

My question is not here

Write to [email protected] and ask. Questions that arrive more than once usually end up as an article, and the ones that arrive often end up on this page.

Start with the blog archive, or pick a topic from the about page if you would rather see how the site is organised first.