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Jamie Hamilton: But the outrage masks complicity. ‘Tactical analysis’ has been on course for this moment for decades, maybe over a century. Ever since its formalisation, football thinkers have tri...

Mark O’Sullivan: Constraints were first categorised by Newell in 1986 (14) (see Figure 1) as: Individual (e.g., height, speed, cognition, emotions and motivation,) Task (e.g., specific...

This video makes me want to experiment with local open-source AI models and ditch the $19.99 subscription to ChatGPT. The video is inspiring because I never knew any of that was possible right now on...

Ahmed Walid for The Athletic: Speaking from his (and Odegaard’s) home country of Norway, Morten Gamst Pedersen says he rates Arsenal’s attacking set pieces as the best in the league, with their de...

Jamie Hamilton on the Training Ground Guru Podcast discussing the differences in embracing chaos between positionism and relationism: […] Again, people might be familiar with Jonathan Wilson’s boo...

Opta Analyst: The result, however, is less actual football than in any other season in recent memory. The ball has been in play for a lower percentage of overall match time (54.8%) than in any oth...

The Athletic: Several such sources said players were upset to find they now had little freedom to express their qualities on the pitch, contrasting Alonso’s more demanding and rigid approach to th...

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Paul MacInnes for The Guardian: The International Football Association Board (Ifab) has discussed the possibility of limiting how long a player can spend on a throw-in, in a bid to increase the am...

David Segar for Opta Analyst: Virgil van Dijk has won at least seven more aerial duels than any other player in the Premier League this season (46 of 59 – 78%), while his centre-back partner Ibrah...

I don’t want to watch teams play to win corners and throw-ins and then take their sweet old time taking said corners and throw-ins. I want the ball in play. I don’t want to see players descend into th...

Pau Cubarsí on what makes learning in La Masia so special: All the coaches focus a lot on teaching the small details, showing you the big difference they make in our game. For me, hiding my passes...

Water should be free and this is an incredible concept for a real problem. This company, FreeWater, packages water in a carton and sells it free to the consumer. Each carton of water is paid for by a...

The Athletic: In the 12 weeks between October 5 and December 25, United will play only one home match on a weekend — against Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday. During that period, United have ...

James Olley for ESPN: Asked when he realised set-pieces would be such a pivotal part of his approach, Arteta said: “Ten years ago. I wasn’t here but 10 years ago, I said ‘it is a massive thing to ...

This is the future of sports, not just the NFL. With artificial intelligence we should be able to get live action analysis to tell us what is happening, even before it happens. It should be something ...

Jamie Hamilton: Maybe the stakes are just too high for anything interesting to happen. The potential losses are simply too catastrophic. Football, like film, has become an industry allergic to ris...

Jamie Carragher on Sky Sports after Liverpool’s 1-2 loss to Manchester United: I do think watching Mo Salah this season, and I absolutely love him. There’s a tactical setup with Mo Salah in that h...

The Telegraph: Roberto Mancini has emerged as a rival to front-runner Sean Dyche to replace Ange Postecoglou following the Australian’s sacking at Nottingham Forest after just 39 days in charge. ...

BBC Sport: Legendary Manchester United star Ryan Giggs has called for the return of orthodox wing play and believes that modern day football has become ‘strangled’. “I hope it comes back, left ...

Matt Lawton for The Times: The Premier League could agree to what some opponents view as a salary cap as early as next month, with a vote on “anchoring” scheduled for the November shareholders’ me...

Mark Critchley from The Athletic talking about Ruben Amorim’s stubbornness to not want to change his system: Take him at his word, and supposedly one of the most stubborn figures working in Englis...

Guilherme Ramos for Trivela (translated from Portuguese): In the pyramid, the three in front of them were the half-backs. The term has been lost over the years and has no literal translation [to ...