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"It is an unsettling move at this stage, a kind of ageing-swinger version of tactical innovation. At one point in his classic Rabbit novels, John Updike sends his paunchy, middle-aged anti-hero Harry Angstrom off on a slightly sad wife-swapping escapade during a golfing holiday in the Caribbean. Alone in the bamboo chalet, Harry and nice prim Thelma fumble through their belated moment of 1960s swing with an awkward married tenderness. Eventually, a little desperate, in search of something special and exciting to do, they end up urinating on each other in the bath. This is pretty much what Arsenal’s back three seem like: confused, fumbling, spreading across the chest like a hot, sweet flush of ammoniac regret."  https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/may/05/arsene-wenger-arsenal
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This is about the most accurate paragraph: "Something seems to have been lost around about the time the man who introduced internationalism decided the right thing was to have a “British spine”. Exit the creaky, flighty, high class midweek Carling Cup types – the Carlos Vela Supremacy – who for all their frustrations always seemed to have a brilliant midweek hat-trick against Reading in their locker. Enter a creeping, well-behaved mediocrity."
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With reading in the championship it was probably for the best that they moved on. Surely the British spine was there from the beginning though.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/05/19/julio-arca-fulfil-childhood-wembley-dream-four-years-told-would/quote:Two years ago, Julio Arca was playing football for a pub team in Sunderland called the Willow Pond, a last resort after his career was prematurely ended by injury. This weekend, he will fulfill a boyhood dream of playing at Wembley in a cup final.
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Jose posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/05/19/julio-arca-fulfil-childhood-wembley-dream-four-years-told-would/ quote:“Everyone in Argentina knows about Wembley and, yes, we do call it the home of football." Do they really?
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Jose posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/05/19/julio-arca-fulfil-childhood-wembley-dream-four-years-told-would/ This is a good read.
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Gigi Galli posted:Decent article by Paolo Bandini on why Coverciano consistently produces good managers: Rory Smith also has an article about Coverciano. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/sports/soccer/italy-coaches-antonio-conte-chelsea.html?smid=tw-share
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It's the 50th anniversary of the Lisbon Lions, and a fan who went from Glasgow to Portugal shared his story of the trip: http://www.bytheminute.co/events/52...ive-21-may-2017
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UEFA's trying a new rule in youth tournaments: switching up the penalty kick order. Instead of it going AB AB AB AB AB, they're making it go AB BA AB BA AB. The problem they're trying to fix is that teams that go first win 60% of the time. They're trying to even that out. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/sports/soccer/uefa-tinkers-with-penalty-shootouts-aiming-at-first-kick-advantage.html
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is that not just because the pressure on the 10th kick taker is higher than all before? this change doesn't solve anything then
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Jose posted:is that not just because the pressure on the 10th kick taker is higher than all before? this change doesn't solve anything then first taker is usually in a position to put his team ahead and inflict stress on the other team's taker. second taker is almost always just trying to catch up, so the incentive is less positive and the stress is more acute. after all, his alternative outcome is that his team falls behind. the article does a better job communicating the research behind these things
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Can't remember if this has made the rounds here before, but it's an entertaining read - Carlos Kaiser had a 20 year career with some of Brazil's biggest clubs, but he had no footballing ability and no intention of ever playing: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/apr/26/the-forgotten-story-of-carlos-kaiser-footballs-greatest-conman
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trem_two posted:Can't remember if this has made the rounds here before, but it's an entertaining read - Carlos Kaiser had a 20 year career with some of Brazil's biggest clubs, but he had no footballing ability and no intention of ever playing: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/apr/26/the-forgotten-story-of-carlos-kaiser-footballs-greatest-conman That's a great article, thanks for posting. Some quality potential av material, too. Exhibit A: 
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Cocaine's a helluva drug. Also speaking of which/lol:Wikipedia posted:In March 2009, Italian officials announced that Maradona still owed the Italian government €37 million in taxes; €23.5 million of which was accrued interest on his original debt. They reported that thus far, Maradona has paid only €42,000, two luxury watches and a set of earrings.
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Football365's series of write-ups on iconic footballers has been a solid series and Socrates is a real cool guy. Portrait of an Icon: Socrates
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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jun/29/steven-caulker-mental-illness-addictions-gambling-drinking-qpr I always thought Steven Caulker was a lot older for some reason
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Bogan Krkic posted:https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jun/29/steven-caulker-mental-illness-addictions-gambling-drinking-qpr Same. I expected him to be well into his 30's?
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Bogan Krkic posted:https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jun/29/steven-caulker-mental-illness-addictions-gambling-drinking-qpr I like how the URL implies QPR is part of a list of problems including mental illness, gambling, and drinking.
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Hashtag Banterzone posted:im putting this cool article here cuz we don't a separate article thread imo.
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Not sure where to post this but Vice World of Sports have episodes dedicated to big football rivalries such as Boca v River and Red Star v Partizan Belgrade. Haven't seen them yet but generally their sports stuff has been alright
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julian assflange posted:Not sure where to post this but Vice World of Sports have episodes dedicated to big football rivalries such as Boca v River and Red Star v Partizan Belgrade. Yeah these are good, I saw the Algiers one a few weeks ago and it was interesting. The story of football there in general is cool.
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Gigi Galli posted:Yeah these are good, I saw the Algiers one a few weeks ago and it was interesting. The story of football there in general is cool. Must look out for the one
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I thought this was pretty good, showing what journeymen go through to find gigs. https://mobile.twitter.com/Deadspin/status/889838509078589440
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Shrapnig posted:That guy is the worst "soccer writer" in American media. I’m not going to tell you that Christian Pulisic’s performance in today’s Borussia Dortmund-AC Milan friendly—in which he conjured two assists, won a penalty, and eeled his way past famously big and bad Serie A defenders more times than you could count—means that the Wonderteen is primed to take the leap from solid and promising young prospect to legitimate and inarguable superstar this year, nor that his impending breakout 20 goals and 20 assists will make him a shock inclusion on the next Ballon d’Or podium, and definitely not that, behind this silky American’s talents, Dortmund are practically a lock for the league-cup-Champions League treble.
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The Cult is pretty good, covers all sports, but has some really fun footballers profiles https://sports.vice.com/en_uk/topic/the-cult
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Good read by Daniel Storey about Rooney's debut hat-trick against Fenerbahce The Game I’ll Never Forget: Manchester United vs Fenerbahce
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Really good piece by Football 365: A Love Letter to Ian Wright quote:Michael Cox wrote to me to mention this – the footage isn’t available.
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This was posted in the feral footballers thread and it's good http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...paign=editorial
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