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Nov 19, 20211 min read

Episode 17 – Graham Potter profile

In the latest episode of Up, Back, Through – A Soccer Coaching Podcast, Eddy and David discuss the rise of Graham Potter from his time in...

Sep 21, 20218 min read

Tactical Analysis: Manchester City’s Underlaps

“The objective is to move the opponent, not the ball.” Adherents to the rather loaded term of positional play perceive football to be a...

Apr 24, 20211 min read

Episode 5: Top Teams Revisited – Manchester United 2006/07

In the fifth episode of the podcast, Eddy and David introduce a new segment called Top Teams Revisited. The first episode of this kind...

Mar 2, 20215 min read

A look at Manchester United’s tactics against Chelsea

On Sunday, Thomas Tuchel and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer faced off for the first time in the Premier League after several tactical battles in...

Feb 6, 20216 min read

Reinventing a full-back – Luke Shaw 2.0

When Alex Telles signed for Manchester United in October, many fans thought he did so as a replacement for Luke Shaw. The English...

Feb 5, 202110 min read

Shrewd and sensible – how Tottenham should approach the summer transfer window

José Mourinho’s first first full season as Spurs coach hasn’t gone precisely to plan thus far. After guiding the team to sixth-place...

Jan 29, 20217 min read

Wayne Rooney – Relatable, Fallible and Breathtakingly Brilliant

There is a line in Julian Barnes’s masterpiece The Noise of Time, a novel about the splendid Russian-Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich,...

Jan 27, 20217 min read

Manchester City’s defenders, world domination and the power of the academy

It would appear that City Football Group are trying to take over the world. From a volcano hideout somewhere on a remote island Dr. Evil...

Oct 29, 20178 min read

Remembering Sir Alex Ferguson’s final season at Manchester United

“I’m an absolute dinosaur. But what I am, I’m a winner” was Sir Alex Ferguson’s words on Manchester United’s end of the season awards...

Oct 1, 20174 min read

Guardiola’s City breaks Chelsea’s resistance in vital win

Pep Guardiola earned the first win of his Premier League career against Chelsea as his well-drilled Manchester City managed to break...