All posts tagged "Soccer"
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/ 1 month agoHow can you tell if a football manager is actually good at their job?
An important thing to remember about Andre Villas-Boas is that he had ridiculously good hair. You don’t spend a record-shattering €15...
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/ 2 months agoDo big sporting wins cause an increase in birth rates among fans?
Follow live coverage of Arsenal vs Luton in the Premier League today Football arguably doesn’t need anything extra to feed its...
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/ 2 months agoThe Briefing: Will Haaland’s form cost Man City? Cole Palmer: MVP? Xabi Alonso’s power move
Welcome to The Briefing, where every Monday during this season The Athletic will discuss three of the biggest questions to arise from the weekend’s...
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/ 2 months agoUkraine qualify for Euro 2024: ‘The world is going to watch and see we never give up’
More than 40 members of Ukraine’s national-team party were spread around the centre circle of Wroclaw’s Tarczynski Arena. Players, coaches and...
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/ 2 months agoThe $25m fraudster who came so close to buying an English football club
In the first of our series about the men who want to buy English football clubs, this is the remarkable story...
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/ 2 months agoFootball’s best up-and-coming managers: Thiago Motta, a fascinating tactician
This is the first article in a six-part series looking at some of European football’s most innovative up-and-coming managers. Thiago Motta...
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/ 2 months agoJamie Cassidy – the Liverpool prodigy who became a cocaine conspirator
He appeared in the dock at Manchester Crown Court like a familiar-looking stranger, a vivid memory from a distant past. Jamie...
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/ 2 months agoCarragher, Abdo and the verbal grenade on CBS that made everyone squirm
When Micah Richards isn’t laughing, you know you’re in trouble. Jamie Carragher’s dig at Kate Abdo, lobbing a verbal grenade appearing...
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/ 2 months agoMichael Edwards – the Liverpool visionary FSG simply cannot live without
This is an updated version of an article first published in June 2020. Perhaps the best place to start is the...
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/ 2 months agoWhy did the USWNT-Canada match continue? Explaining the rules around postponing games
American soccer has dealt with two high-profile instances of extreme weather disrupting professional games in the last week. In both cases,...