VAR Gets Worse
My comments an VAR were miles off the mark: I didn’t foresee the real problem with it’s introduction being the rabble off the field screaming “CONSPIRACY” when things don’t go their way under review. During …
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Posts in the Category: Analysis
VAR & The Premier League
The introduction of VAR in the Premier league is fraught with difficulty because the scope is too large and the reviews will be hobbled by the same biases the match referees and their assistants suffer. …
Read More →Evolution of Tactics
I have been rereading “Inverting the Pyramid” by Johnathan Wilson for the umpteenth time. The book gives an overview of evolutions in soccer tactics over the century plus of such things and is always enjoyable …
Read More →Bob Bradley has the wrong accent
Bob Bradley has the wrong accent. That’s not why he was fired, Swansea’s woeful showing ensured that, but from when he was hired there were mutterings in the English media about how Bradley sounded. They …
Read More →Two Matches Into the Season
How many words have been written, professional and amateur, about “what we have learned” in the first 10 days of the Premier League season? Ultimately all of it is filler and fodder because we can’t …
Read More →The Double Dummy
Watch the first 20 seconds of this clip:
Really it is about 7 seconds that matter: 8-15.
The dummy is a neglected skill, especially at the recreational level, but here we get …
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