Reimagining Chelsea: A Positional Play Game Model Part 2

This blog will be a follow up to my piece “Re-imagining Frank Lampard’s Chelsea: A positional play game model,” which I first published on August 9th 2020 on my personal blog and then later on “weaintgotnohistory” on October 14th 2020, in which I laid out the case that then manager Frank Lampard should implement a positional play …

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The Super League is Dead (for now), but European football’s problems still threaten to kill the game we love

European football has been in a state of Cold War for decades, with the threat of a breakaway Super League coming up every few years. Usually, it ends with more concessions and reforms or some other agreement that merely kicks the can down the road. Last Sunday’s official announcement and statement of intent signalled an …

Re-imagining Frank Lampard’s Chelsea – A Positional Play Game Model

These are no doubt exciting times to be a Chelsea fan. With the signings of attacking superstars Hakim Ziyech and Timo Werner already complete and the likes of Kai Havertz and Saïd Benrahma heavily linked, Lampard is set to have a huge injection of attacking quality to take his budding Chelsea revolution to the next …

2020-22 Reflections: RC Lens London

Life leads you exactly where you're supposed to be... just have faith and keep going. Looking back, it all feels inevitable. Like it had to be this way. Like all the dots were connecting as they needed to. The setbacks, the triumphs, the teams, the memories, the lessons and growth... all part of a greater …

England Euro 2020 Tactical Analysis

Euro 2020 has been an absolute whirlwind of emotions for England fans so far. From the understated start against Croatia to the devasting lows against Scotland to the incredible highs against Germany and Ukraine, its been an absolute rollercoaster so far, nothing less than what we’ve come to expect from English football. Southgate has been …

Book Review – Mentality Monsters: How Jürgen Klopp took Liverpool FC from also-rans to Champions of Europe, by Paul Tomkins

In a world where Liverpool’s recent success has been analysed to death, it takes a special book to shed new light on the topic. Enter Paul Tomkin’s Mentality Monsters. The book joins a long list of books, blogs, podcasts and more that have attempted to pinpoint the main causes by behind Liverpool’s extraordinary resurgence under Jurgen …

How developing my passion for space revolutionised my coaching

They say to be great, you must be obsessed. If you want to achieve something special, nothing but complete commitment will be enough. But there’s a dark side to obsession, one that destroys lateral thinking and, in the process, kills creativity: tunnel vision. When you’re fully concentrated on one thing, that can become all you …

Book Review – An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield

Today’s #BookOfTheWeek is simply out of this world... The best book I've read this year and one of the most inspirational I have ever read, every page of Chris Hadfield’s “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth - Life Lessons from Space” is filled with wisdom and inspiration. Inspired by the successful Apollo 11 missions …

To sack or not to sack…

In the aftermath of Chelsea’s record-breaking defeat last Sunday, the usual debate that has followed Chelsea manager after Chelsea manager since the dawn of the Roman Empire in West London, has reared its ugly head once more. To sack or not to sack? That is always the question, isn’t it? On the one hand, arguments …

Strategic Rondos Part 4: Practical Implementation

4.1 The Set-Up Once the guidelines found in Part 3 are followed, you will be left with this set up: The blue team make up the Rondo 'circle,' while the reds are the defenders inside. Both teams begin with positions that mirror a real match, both relationally and distance-wise. Neither team has an active GK who …