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EPL 24/25 PREDICTIONS
Time flies when you’re having fun and for this to be the second year in this series already feels so quick. I have a lot more articles planned/in the edit stage to delve deeper in to the tactical side of the game but these opinion ones are fun
EPL POUNDS VS PENCE 11 23/24 REVIEW
As you can probably tell by the title today I will be reviewing the two teams I selected at the start of the season. Link to the full article can be found below but the gist of it is I wanted to pick a team that cost half as much
EPL 23/24 PREDICTIONS REVIEW
If you have 100% belief in my picks you can just stop reading here and we can all pretend I got 60 points (3 for every correct place) and go home. Unfortunately for me, as they say, ‘the game is not played on paper’. I did manage to get a
EPL 23/24 TEAM OF THE SEASON
So after reading through my game log you can see that I watched a lot of games this season. 144 in the Prem and many more in both domestic and European cups. I estimate that I watched each team play at least 10 times (accounting for watching more of certain
GAME LOG FOR 23/24 SEASON
This is the precursor to all the next articles I have coming out. After all, why would you listen to me if I haven’t put in the hours to back it up? My goal was to watch one game a day this season which from Round 1 of the
MURAD TALUKDAR
So for my first interview on the site, who better to get than the man who has influenced me the most, my dad! I’m sure a lot of people reading this will know him, but maybe not how great of a coach he is, and how many of his
LESSONS FROM LEVEL 1
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EPL 23/24 POUNDS VS PENCE 11
Half of all transfers fail! No matter what your gut, your head coach, data analysts or Barry down the pub tells you there are no sure things when it comes to transfers. Watch the video below for the full explanation but six common reasons a transfer could fail are
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POSITIONAL PLAY IN PRACTICE
Positional play or juego de posición is a set of rules that govern where players should be in order to help with ball progression. The idea being that the less players have to think about in terms of what positions they take up on the pitch and what movements they
WHERE GAMES ARE WON AND LOST
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Moneyball is one of my favourite movies and this scene is how I feel when it comes to football tactics dialogue. What actually wins or loses a game? Is it tactics? Formation? Player roles? Quality? For me there are only four things that can win or lose
HOW I SEE THE PITCH
How we talk about the game and specifically the language we use informs how we then see and play the game going forward. Below is a great article that shows the difference in phrasing between different languages and how this allows or forces us to view things differently, it'
EPL 23/24 PREDICTIONS
A big part of coaching is prediction, how will a transfer, manager, tactic work out? Every year I have a bet with my Dad and good friend Josh to see how well we can predict the Premier League table. I start with the previous seasons table then I look at
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