Posts Tagged going the extra mile
The Southgate Parallel: A New Concept in Football Rankings
The Southgate Parallel is an attempt to quantify the subjective sense of belonging that accrues around a team over time, and that changes slowly, in response to a mystifying range of factors. It’s based on the assumption that there is an ineffable but shared perception of each well-known team’s “real level”: to take the Premier [...]
David Brent on Football Management
As anyone can tell you, managing a Premiership football club is very much like running a successful paper merchant. David Brent explores the similarities. The audio sync is terrible, but the wisdom sync is just about perfect.
Do you think that Alan Hansen or Mark Lawrenson would have had the careers they had if they’d have [...]
Greatest April Fools’ Day Tricks in Football History
April Fools’ Day is one of my favorite holidays, probably because it’s the one day of the year when I don’t have to apologize for deviousness and petty cruelty. In football, the first day of April is traditionally a time for pranks and hoaxes (see: La Liga and the 39th game), and over the [...]
Micah Richards Is a Courteous Columnist
From Micah Richards’ BBC column on Steve McClaren today:
He gave me my England debut and for someone to pick a defender for England at 18, like he did with me, takes balls….
It is not easy to come into the England set-up at that age but Steve made me feel welcome and he put me on [...]
