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.
The spectre of diving in football reared its ugly head again this Premiership weekend with Zokora being the latest of foreign imports to take a theatrical tumble and win his side an unfair advantage.
However, as much as Steven Gerrard would...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. One comment
It’s a scene out of a very horrible nightmare for me – I imagine this is how Thierry Henry fans felt when he went down (at...
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Today, 19th September, marks the 5-month anniversary of Soccerlens (yay!).
In this short period of time writing about football I’ve come to realise that there are many myths perpetrated about football, clubs and players that go unchecked...
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Last week, I met up with an old friend after work for a quick beer or seven. During the discourse of the evening, he began to lament the change the Political Correctness movement has had on life on the Britannia Isle.
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(Note to the Soccerlens Massive: I was gonna keep stoom on this but, now the dust is settled, I thought I’d put my ha’penny’s in…)
A rhetorical question: Can the existence of an organisation as decidedly iffy...
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Soccerlens has something of a ‘reputation’ when it comes to Arsenal and diving – my attacks on Henry...
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According to the United Nations, and in common with the majority of countries in Western Europe, the United Kingdom is facing a potentially catastrophic problem.
Strangely, given its gravity, it’s a big issue that goes...
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Twice Steven Gerrard has taken the time to condemn foreign players diving in interviews. In one instance he...
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My worthy colleague here at Soccerlens recently posted his opinions on the player injury compensation issue.
I’d like to add my tuppence to the discussion....
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