A blind man on a galloping horse. Tuesday, 30 August 2011.

A football blog celebrating defenders and the under-appreciated art of defending. Bielsa is gone now and Chile have changed their tactical set-up while still retaining the core philosophy of relentless pressing and attacking in numbers.

Musings on life as I live it, by D. Monday, June 27, 2011. Deconstructing the 4-2 Gold Cup debacle at Rose Bowl. I am an avid follower of the sport known worldwide as football and in the US as soccer. While I grew up playing and following the sport of cricket, I essentially gave it up when I moved from the home of the world champions. To a country where the word is more commonly understood to mean a member of the Gryllidae.

Tactical analysis on matches, teams and players and occasionally other articles. Thursday, 3 October 2013. The same thing is starting to happen with Bayern Munich. Man City lose the ball in midfield, Ribery plays it right back to Neuer in goal so Bayern can recycle possession from the back.

Ranking the 300 best players in the world. First installment of the list is now up. The 200 best players in the world. I have the 300 best players in the world ordered and ready to go. That took way longer than I had expected, but now many of them have been updated as well. Once everyone have been updated The 300.

Kalju edging closer to first title. Goals from week 31 - Saturday 29th September. Sillamäe have been in great form with four straight wins and look to have secured a European place by finishing fourth. They have been boosted by the arrival of Estonian international Slava Zahovaiko and the recent good form of Aleksandr Bebikh. Monday, 17 September 2012.

Monday, 6 November 2017. Are Premier League referees biased against Arsenal? In the wake of yet another contentious penalty decision given against Arsenal, I thought it would be interesting to dive into the numbers to see whether Premier League referees do actually discriminate against Arsenal at either end of the pitch. All statistics are sourced from OPTA, via Statbunker. On the face of it this contrast would make sense - penalties are often won during transitions, when tricky, pac.

The Evolution of Michael Carrick. I In Which We Are Introduced To Our Hero. II First Rays of the New Rising Sun. In this and all other heat maps the pitch has been divided into twenty 5. 25 metre segments in the y-axis and ten 6. 8 metre segments in the x-axis, and the number in each square indicates how many passes were attempted in that section of the pitch.