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sport & selling

A collection of 408 issues

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

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

Ideas Meeting Not IRL

Plans for International Ideas Day? pic.twitter.com/VOogHx0I9G — Modern Toss (@ModernToss) March 2, 2022 Here is contemporary commentary on The Beautiful Game. No, not that one. The sorcery of Pep, Ralf's Wingless Wonders, jumpers for goalposts and all that. But more likely, the crunch of Chopper Harris,

Approach Span Platform Fail

I do love the Before/After trope. The sport of golf has plenty of courses of world renown. Right up there, is perhaps the golf course, St Andrews' Old Course. Standing on its small stone bridge at the 18th, the Swilcan Bridge, being the prized bucket-list selfie shot of

Relative Age Effect

In news that will be no surprise to those born during the N Hemisphere Summer, young sports teams are comprised predominantly of those born in the Autumn. This is due to the seasonal nature of the sporting calendar. Coinciding as it does, to run alongside the academic year of September

Autocratic Sportswashing Reclamation

6,500 migrant workers reportedly died building the Qatar stadiums hosting the latest football World Cup. Then there's the harshest of police state jackboot should you be openly, you know, non-heterosexual, a democrat, or even a woman. And how can anyone truly trust any country which outlaws the

Pep's Overload to Tilt Secret

“In all team sports, the secret is to overload one side of the pitch so that the opponent must tilt its own defence to cope.” The reveal, according to Pep Guardiola. Does any sport hail as boundary reshaping and mindset shifting a coach as football's pre-eminent genius right

Belief When Bottom Of The League

The latest fly-on-the-wall peak behind the curtain into the EPL dressing room caused its expected afluttering. This season's treatment - hot on the heels of title winners of Pep Guardiola then perma-chaos of Jose Mourinho - followed Mikel Arteta trying to recapture glory days for one-time UCL stalwarts.

Beware The Illusory Breakthrough

> Can you press with this squad? [Manchester] United managed just seven pressures in the final third all game, 14 fewer than Brentford. Ralf Rangnick last season despaired of the lack of basic tactical understanding in the squad; most, he said, had simply never been drilled in ball-oriented pressing. He

Intensity Over Targets & Figures

> "It's never based on targets and figures. It's about the intensity." So spoke cricket World Cup winning 50-over captain of England, Eoin Morgan. Reflecting on Friday's world record score against the Dutch. A total just two shy of the vaunted 500.