This is part of our efforts to improve football. In this column we discuss the key issues facing football – using more technology, money in the game, diving / simulation, developing young players and football training in general, changes to rules (governing football and clubs) and a lot more.
Instructions, mentality: attacking, passing style: short, tempo: quick. Ohh hang on a second, I can do this for real now.
Last weekend I completed my Football Federation Australia junior coaching license, so am now a ‘proper’ football...
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Written by Kieran Pender. 4 comments
US soccer has progressed to the level where like the rest of the world, MLS clubs should considering paying modest youth transfer fees to local clubs that develop the young players they select for their U16 and U18 academy teams.
Reimbursement...
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Written by L.E. Eisenmenger. 5 comments
Back in June, as Major League Soccer was finding its stride on the other side of the Atlantic, Michel Platini and UEFA confirmed that this year’s Europa League would be the testing ground for a new officiating structure.
By adding an...
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Written by Chris Nee. 3 comments
Thanks to Eduardo, diving has once again risen to the summit of football’s trendy topic list.
Whatever the rights or wrongs of the UEFA charge and its subsequent overturning on appeal, the majority view was Eduardo purposely exaggerated the...
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Written by Luke Moore. 3 comments
We’ve all been there. It’s the last minute and your team is clinging on to a vital, undeserved win away from home. You stand and bellow support for your lads with their backs against the walls, frantically throwing themselves in front of every...
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Written by Sam Jackson. Comments Off
The Premier League have introduced a home-grown player rule and a limit on squad sizes – both of which will come into effect from next season.
The 20 Premier League clubs have voted to introduce the measures which will...
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Written by Dan Ross. 5 comments
Today a four year legal battle that has dominated the national and international news has come to an end, Michael Shields has been pardoned by the British government following his conviction for attempted murder in a Bulgarian court. After serving...
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Written by Kristian Downer. 5 comments
Unless one has been in a coma for the past two weeks, they would have noticed the controversy surrounding the (just about) Croatian Eduardo’s attempt to “deceive the referee” in Arsenal’s Champions League Qualifier against Celtic and his subsequent...
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Written by Zak. 10 comments
Fashion writers like to think that they have their fingers on the ever-changing pulse of the British nation, that they are armed with an intricate understanding and perception of what is hot, not, and what could well turn out to be in the future. And...
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Written by Neil Jones. One comment
No he hasn’t. Of course he hasn’t. My apologies for leading you to think that he had.
However, it does help me draw attention to this accurate depiction (comic below) of what ‘football blogging’ can be like when you get...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 7 comments
