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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: 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: 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: Spain is dead, long live Spain
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Minus the Shooting 2010. Let the memories begin! Wednesday, 7 July 2010. Spain is dead, long live Spain. I've been surprised to find so little support for Spain among the rest of the Minus contributors and other friends. Partly this comes down to them being, as Mark put it, one of the smugonauts' choices. 8211; one of those teams that a certain kind of post-Hornby football fan. But why wouldn't they? Contrary to M. Toledo, the commenter here. And I say this regardless of the outcome tonight. Because ...
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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: Fine Margins
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Minus the Shooting 2010. Let the memories begin! Friday, 9 July 2010. Now Lampard already seems like a figure from a long-ago age. As an England footballer at least; I've not doubt that he'll be as cold-eyed ruthless as ever for Chelsea next season. But as an Enland footballer he will always be the man who went to a series of tournaments and didn't score. (Even though, against Germany he did.) That's what is so dramatic about these moments -the finest margin. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The rearv...
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Minus the Shooting 2010: linking play
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Minus the Shooting 2010. Let the memories begin! Wednesday, 7 July 2010. While the links have been quietly accumulating in the sidebar, I'd like to mention one site in particular, whose unflashy name, Must Read Soccer. Belies how interesting it is. Essentially a clearing house for anything written on football that catches its author's eye, even a cursory check throws up:. Andrew Guest's On the Invention of Tradition. Jonathan Wilson on Uruguay's garra. Tim Vickery on the emotional immaturity. The rearvie...
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Minus the Shooting 2010: missed narratives
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Minus the Shooting 2010. Let the memories begin! Wednesday, 14 July 2010. Normally commentators and pundits are desperate to stitch together any kind of narrative they can from the frequently random events of football history. A player only has to return to a former club for the first time for someone like Clive Tyldesley or Martin Tyler to near-hyperventilate at the prospect of him scoring a revenge goal. Up will go the cry of 'What a story! 2007/08: with Man Utd – Premier League, Champions League.
