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Minus the Shooting 2010: The Golden Balls Of Diego
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Minus the Shooting 2010. Let the memories begin! Monday, 12 July 2010. The Golden Balls Of Diego. Well, after a comment here. And now that Forlan has (deservedly, I think) won the Golden Ball, I'd better make my position clear. When I said: "If he'd scored a few for Man U he'd be a real star now, I think.". I meant this not as a part of my "Bloody typical English delusion" (though I. Power of the Premiership. Forlan was a good player at Manchester United,. The notional status of star, of Golden Balls, is...
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Minus the Shooting 2010: A Complicated Game Simplified By Fools
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Minus the Shooting 2010. Let the memories begin! Saturday, 10 July 2010. A Complicated Game Simplified By Fools. Mark's recent post on technique raises lots of interesting questions, not least why the England team's is so poor. Is England's 'problem' then an inability to conceive of the game as anything other than essentially simple, not an absence of technique so much as too narrow a definition of what it involves? Does an overiding sense of pragmatism, of wanting to call a spade a spade,. R W Johnson b...
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Minus the Shooting 2010: Tension, shocks, but not much drama
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Minus the Shooting 2010. Let the memories begin! Monday, 12 July 2010. Tension, shocks, but not much drama. Football. This tournament has made it clear that. Spectres of defeat, they also overcame some of their continent's (now Europeans can win outside Europe), and the tournament's (now, it's possible to lose your first game and go on to win the tournament). Two statistics from Opta. Side, even if they weren't a counter-attacking or defensive team. We've been confronted with the apparent paradox of ...
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Minus the Shooting 2010: Myths Of The Near Past
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Minus the Shooting 2010. Let the memories begin! Thursday, 8 July 2010. Myths Of The Near Past. I’m loathe to mention him here, particularly in a vaguely positive light, but Nick Hornby. This language is highly revealing, more a checklist of cultural aspiration than an observation of footballing aptitude. It’s the reason that Arsene. Remains the darling of Arsenal, even if they don’t win anything. At least they lose in the right way. Similarly, tabloid sports pages typically praise workrate. The interest...
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Minus the Shooting 2010: It’s Not Over: The World Cup Dromenon
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Minus the Shooting 2010. Let the memories begin! Monday, 12 July 2010. It’s Not Over: The World Cup Dromenon. 12 July 2010 at 22:54. I was sorry when they sent Huizinga off. Other players had deserved it more. 25 May 2011 at 11:23. I would be interested to discuss methectic/dromenon in the context of play therapy. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Folding up the Wallcharts. Tension, shocks, but not much drama. It’s Not Over: The World Cup Dromenon. The Game Never Ends.
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Minus the Shooting 2010: Technique
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Minus the Shooting 2010. Let the memories begin! Friday, 9 July 2010. Long, long ago in the tournament - when England were still in, that long ago - Giovanni and I had a little disagreement about "technique". I was arguing that the problem with the England team is not. After all, conceived of as a purely physical act (is that. Or is it something else? 9 July 2010 at 19:58. Well in Spains case its also partly the result of 7(? Even if they werent the best technical players? 9 July 2010 at 23:26. What Im s...
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Minus the Shooting 2010: Thank God for Jonathan Wilson
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Minus the Shooting 2010. Let the memories begin! Friday, 9 July 2010. Thank God for Jonathan Wilson. Jonathan Wilson's tactical survey. Of the World Cup focusses on Spain, while also reassuring me over my own sanity:. Which brings us to Germany. They too play a 4-2-3-1 and, although Philipp Lahm breaks forward occasionally, theirs is essentially a defensive set-up. In three games, Germany scored an early first goal – against Argentina and England. It was essentially handed to them – and in those ga...
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Minus the Shooting 2010: Remediations
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Minus the Shooting 2010. Let the memories begin! Wednesday, 14 July 2010. Written play-by-play reportage - at least in the Italian papers - has shrunk considerably over the years, due in all likelihood to the saturation of video images, and the assumption that the readers would have seen the action for themselves many times over by then. And I recall very vividly his drawing of a Bettega goal against England in the World Cup qualifier of 1976 that I was delighted to find on the Internet. Go both ways....
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Minus the Shooting 2010: New Labours
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Minus the Shooting 2010. Let the memories begin! Saturday, 14 June 2014. Well, Mark got there first but there's going to be lots written about the Spain vs Netherlands match. It may all come to nothing (it won't) but it certainly felt like an end of an era, even if it's quite hard to settle on exactly what. The era was. Tiki-taka ended sometime around Guardiola moving on from Barcelona but the end was coming even before then, when the Italians played Spain in their first match at the Euros. On the pitch&...
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Minus the Shooting 2010: What If Muller Was Suspended?
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Minus the Shooting 2010. Let the memories begin! Thursday, 8 July 2010. What If Muller Was Suspended? Only just watched the Spain/Germany Quarter Final, the highlights anyway. Must have been a difficult match to edit. Ought to be some kind of exemplar. On Hendrix but these were the bits that most people liked. Xavi, Iniesta et al are unlovable. It might be why we hate some of our colleagues. Why people find Martin Amis difficult. Why we need Mozart and Beethoven to be a bit mental. Why Jonath...Game to p...
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