This book is not for the new soccer fan, but for the type who read Jonathan Wilson and enjoys the tactical games managers play with each other and the leagues throughout the season. While the overall book is not as polished as a Wilson book, it is informative and interesting, and is a definite must-read… Continue reading My Review of More Than 90 Minutes for WST
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I Resolve To Do The Following In 2017…
Resolutions are so overrated. I have never been a fan of using January 1 as a day to enact some sort of life change simply because it is the first day of the year. If I find something inadequate in my life or in need of change, August 21 is just as good a time to… Continue reading I Resolve To Do The Following In 2017…
WST Review of The Arsenal Yankee
Great soccer players don’t just happen; they don’t position themselves in front of scouts and get signed based on what decisions they make. It’s more complicated than that, and that is the greatest value of this book, even more so than the details of training with the Invincibles. For parents like me or even just… Continue reading WST Review of The Arsenal Yankee
WST Podcast – Transfer News
Check out my latest appearance on the World Soccer Talk Podcast, where this week we discuss transfers for every Premier League club. https://t.co/faPeU7TKsK
My Review of 5,000-1 The Leicester City Story for WST
Mixing new writing in with columns from the time, Tanner does not claim to have foreseen this outcome or even predicted that Leicester would surprise people. Instead, he takes his reader into the season through the lens of the betting odds, which started as the season as 5,000-1 and decreased as the season went along… Continue reading My Review of 5,000-1 The Leicester City Story for WST
Reflections on a Magical Wales Team in Euro 2016
First, let me begin this article by saying that I am not from Wales; unlike my colleague Christopher Harris at World Soccer Talk I did not come from the country or have immediate family grow up there. There are branches of my family tree from Wales but the majority of my heritage is from Italy,… Continue reading Reflections on a Magical Wales Team in Euro 2016
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