Supporting your favourite club in football, rugby, and other sports can be expensive. Premier League fans, for instance, pay £74 per ticket on average. Away matches also carry additional costs, including travel and accommodation. The […]
A few weeks ago I found myself watching a completely random Championship match on a rainy Tuesday night. It wasn’t a title decider. There were no global superstars on the pitch, and most people outside […]
Football is never only about the score. Long before kick-off, supporters are already building a picture of how the match might unfold. They look at form, injuries, tactics, confidence, the referee, recent results and the […]
On 2 May 2016, Leicester City were crowned Premier League champions. An anomaly – as they were given a 5000-to-1 chance of winning the title at the start of the season. Yet, Claudio Ranieri’s men […]
We are closing in on the end of the 2025/26 English Premier League season, and even with just a few games to go, it is not entirely clear who will be lifting the trophy. Although […]
Multiple times during his career, Sir Alex Ferguson stated that the Premier League starts in April. Apart from the limited number of games left, the month is often full of high-stake fixtures. Add the pressure […]
For most of football’s history, understanding a match meant watching it unfold and forming impressions in real time. A team looked sharper, a midfielder seemed tired, a defense appeared unsettled. These observations were instinctive, shaped […]
There aren’t many skills you can pull off in a football match that have the dual purpose of both giving you some space whilst also humiliating your opponent. That is why the nutmeg is such […]
Everyone has heard of the home advantage. A game played away from home is thought to be a tougher prospect than the same game played at your own ground. It’s something we learn early on […]
On average, between 20% and 30% of goals scored come from set-pieces. Despite this, it wasn’t until the 2010s that the dedicated set-piece coach role started becoming more common. The exact numbers of goals scored […]
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