Universality: How Germany and Pep Guardiola are showing us the future football game

Arrigo Sacchi, the famous Italian coach who revolutionized Italian football suggested that the game of the future will not just be a team-centred game but a universal game. For him the game of the future will require positional freedom andvariability, with interchangeable footballers capable of operating wherever required. Sacchi has always been a believer that the team is more important than the individual and the modern game has…

Grace Saville

El Clasico – The biggest football game on the planet

As far as sporting rivalries go, it doesn’t get much bigger than the rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid. Two of the best football teams on the planet (and they have been for ages), every single time these two teams square off against one another it’s fireworks.  Millions of people all over the world set their schedules around these games…

Grace Saville

The death of the box to box centre midfielder ft. Claude Makélélé

Whilst typically locked in debate on the way to Wembley for England’s game against France the other day, it suddenly occurred to me that box to box midfielders are a dying breed. Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard and Paul Scholes are some of the best players of our generation. All great drivers of teams who could both score goals and make…

Ayden Wallace
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Is this the worst Brazilian side to ever feature at a World Cup?

Brazil’s 7-1 loss to Germany was unprecedented for the World Cup. Conceding five first half goals brought about memories of Poland thrashing Haiti 7-0 back in 1974, when the Poles…

Grace Saville