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How is rubbery anti-slip fabric inside socks a new thing? I've been wearing them for like eight years.
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I got a couple pair for free, they're pretty great actually. Probably not going to spend the $35 they cost to actually buy them.
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Vegetable posted:How is rubbery anti-slip fabric inside socks a new thing? I've been wearing them for like eight years. I guess these ones hold up a lot better over the course of a match. I guess they're good enough to make major apparel providers unhappy.
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Daniel Agger: ‘Maybe my story will make other athletes take fewer pills’quote:On Roy Hodgson:
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that's an interesting article with great quotes: Things came to a head again when, according to Agger, there was a heated conversation between him and Rodgers at half-time against Swansea City on 23 February 2014. Rodgers was criticising the two central defenders, Skrtel and Agger, for letting Wilfried Bony have too much of the ball. “Everyone was quiet but I stood up and said: ‘How can you stand there and say that when we are only doing what you have been going on about all week.’ “Rodgers looked at me and muttered: ‘Whatever.’ I was substituted 12 minutes later.”
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Here, have some science you animals. Nigeria did nothing wrong (maybe). http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dear-fifa-there-is-no-scientific-test-to-prevent-age-fraud/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_POLE_NEWS
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Paddyb posted:Here, have some science you animals. Nigeria did nothing wrong (maybe). This seems a bit silly as the age limit for youth football is just a proxy for physical development anyway. Rename it the FIFA Under-Stage 6 Wrist Bone Development Cup and you've solved the problem.
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maybe we could adapt into soccerese the adage if there's grass on the wicket let's play cricket
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*in Jackie Chiles voice* If your wrist bone's not fused, you must recuse!
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Breath Ray posted:maybe we could adapt into soccerese the adage if there's grass on the wicket let's play cricket Settle down Adam Johnson
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A nice story about Paul Pogba's early lifequote:As treasurer, Moressee is waiting to hear the good news from the French football federation (FFF) about the training payment Roissy will receive for Pogba’s transfer to United. Under Fifa regulations, any club who develop a player at 12 or above are entitled to 0.25 per cent of his transfer fees, for each year they coach him. Paul was at Roissy from six to 13 and the club estimate they could be due as much as €400,000 for their one year.
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Here's a story about how transfers work.
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This is interesting and good, ta
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Ronaldo is 40 today so have an article full of links https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/sep/17/ronaldo-40-birthday-brazil-greatest-ever-striker
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x-post from the Serie A thread:trem_two posted:https://twitter.com/gdnlongread/status/804253794871681024
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Good read. Dunno if these have been up, but the Player's Tribune has some interesting stuff by athletes: More Complicated Than Hate - Gary Neville For Rome - Totti (Bonus Italian version for those who can read it ) My Journey to Manchester - Henrikh Mkhitaryan Live From Leicester Fuching City - Christian Fuchs The Game - John Harkes recounts USA - Colombia '94
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Here's a piece on Mino Raiola. It's pretty interesting.
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TheBigAristotle posted:Here's a piece on Mino Raiola. It's pretty interesting. This is pretty interesting, thanks TBA
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Yeah I read that Raiola piece and then forgot to comment here, it's good
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It's a really good article. Financial Times do it right.
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This is pretty neat, and there are some good photos too. https://twitter.com/RorySmith/status/811552283616014342
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That was a nice read 
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Der Shovel posted:That was a nice read
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That was a great article on Raiola - it's easy to see why his players end up coming to him with everything. He seems to actually give a poo poo about them.
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Der Shovel posted:That was a nice read Yeah, really was!
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trem_two posted:This is pretty neat, and there are some good photos too. This is great, thanks for posting it!
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Another good find by TBA, the football reader
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This thread is on constant life-support, but I'm proud of the quality over quantity
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A journeyman footballer wrote this after the Fifpro survey on the living conditions of footballers below the elite level.
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The complete story of Paul Pogba and Ravel Morrison’s diverging careers e: upon further reading, http://thesefootballtimes.co/ looks like it has quite a bit of content. Gonna read this over my lunch in a few minutes: The making of Luis Suárez: a year in Groningen e2: These are some spicy titles that I am going to check out this weekend: The 1962 Asian Games: when India conquered the continent The muddled history of Japanese footballers in the Premier League TheBigAristotle fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Dec 30, 2016 |
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Ronaldinho - Letter to My Younger SelfRonaldinho posted:Where you live in Porto Alegre, there are drugs and gangs and that kind of stuff around. It’s going to be tough, but as long as you are playing football — on the street, at the park, with your dog — you will feel safe. Dogs are indeed great defenders. TheBigAristotle fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Jan 18, 2017 |
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this was really good, check it; total footballer, total rebel: johan cruyff and the resurgence of catalonian pride https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/total-footballer-total-rebel-johan-cruyff-and-the-resurgence-of-catalonian-pride vivisectvnv fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Jan 19, 2017 |
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https://www.theplayerstribune.com/christian-fuchs-leicester-city-champions-league/ cool article from christian fuchs
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/manchester-united-is-too-unlucky-to-be-great/ You might think that Man U aren't winning anything because they suck dick, but you'd be wrong. They're just unlucky. Stats have proved it.
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Cybernetics, Cesarean Sections and Soccer’s Most Magnificent Mindquote:He was not a player of any great note. He has never managed a club. Instead, Frade, 73, is that rarest of things: one of soccer’s most noteworthy theorists.
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https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/apr/26/the-forgotten-story-of-carlos-kaiser-footballs-greatest-conmanquote:Kaiser’s most famous – and most dangerous – scam occurred at Bangu, a small club in the West Zone and a place that has the distinction of hosting the first football match ever played in Brazil. In 1985, they came within a penalty shootout of winning the Campeonato Carioca, an achievement that would have registered extremely high on the Leicester Scale. At the time they were owned by Castor de Andrade, Brazil’s premier bichiero (somebody who operates an illegal gambling game), who was routinely described as the most dangerous man in Brazil and was great friends with the Fifa president João Havelange. Castor was not a man to mildly irk, never mind cross. After one match he chased a referee around the pitch, a gun flapping in his back pocket as he attempted to engage the ref in urgent discourse regarding a minor disparity in their interpretation of the laws of the game.
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Decent article by Paolo Bandini on why Coverciano consistently produces good managers: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2706090-inside-italys-manager-school-where-conte-ancelotti-and-allegri-learned-to-win
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Gigi Galli posted:Decent article by Paolo Bandini on why Coverciano consistently produces good managers: This pic alone is worth a click 
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vyelkin posted:https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/apr/26/the-forgotten-story-of-carlos-kaiser-footballs-greatest-conman lol I love the ending.
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TheBigAristotle posted:This pic alone is worth a click Owns
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