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A collection of 346 issues

Three Term Rule

To limit time in any one role to three years has long been the mantra of the greasy pole careerist. There's many a reason for this slant. For one, I'm reminded of the classic advice of revolutionary Hungarian football coach, Bela Guttman; "the third year is fatal". Meaning that after

Bazsell

Every now and then a cricketing term escapes it boundaries and enters the general psyche. Even those with little knowledge of the great game will likely have heard the euphonious leather-on-willow parlance of 'a sticky wicket', 'googly' or 'out for a duck' in everyday talk. To which do we today

All Cost No Benefit

Dan Andrews, State Premier for Victoria, Australia. Worth noting upfront that this is the politician that locked down his citizens for longer than anyone else nationwide. Which is saying something for a country that was almost as 'zero covid' as its crazed neighbour. Here's the news bulletin blanketing soundbite from

Steal Scores

The absorbing Ladies draw at this year's Wimbledon grass court tennis grand slam tossed up an interesting stat for me, apparently relatively new to the game. Steal Scores are where you win a point after having been on the defensive earlier in it. As opposed to points won when attacking;

Elite Football Strength & Conditioning

The football season, the most ridiculously scheduled yet thanks to buffoons and the allegedly corrupt at FIFA, on top of previously the most crazily ran couple due to you-know-what, is now done. Pepball ascendant at home. Next Summer's continental nation knockouts loom excitedly over the horizon. Apart from transfer saga

Verkoopfilosofie

I touched recently on the differing core approaches to elite level football presently battling for supremacy. There's been a number of progressions in how the game ought be played, since first codified in mid-19th Century England. Tactically in more recent times, the 'Total Football' of 70s Dutch masters help give

Avoiding The Asterisk Deal

There's a lot of t*lk about the football team of the age - perhaps any age - sullied by the alleged underhand financing of oppressive petro-state gazillions. Pep Guardiola's pitchside stewardship of Manchester City remains stellar. His genius unblemished by association. Yet here's a definition, from wikipedia; "an asterisk

Your Guardiolismo

The above graphic comes from the London broadsheet The Telegraph. It charts the first-half of what the Spanish press later described as an "earthquake" suffered by Real Madrid at the hands of Manchester City in the UCL SF, 2nd Leg "thrashing". Stats from the opening 45-minutes of this astonishing masterclass

When You Think About The Win

I read the words reported of (legendary, game changing) former Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger in the build-up to this week's EPL title decider with (genius, game changing) Pep Guardiola's present day Manchester City. In the aftermath of his club's defeat (nay, hammering), the journalist now described his words as "a

Video Platform Race To Our Tomorrow

With the Aussie F1 GP today a lot to do to stop sending those still engaged after the first two foregone conclusion snoozefests heading for the exit, I'm reminded of this thirty-seconder from last year's ad campaign of video platformers, Webex. [Their most recent joint promo is this longer 3-min