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Football Transfers
Do Premier League Players Have a Say in Their Transfers?
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Americans know that in sports, there is a widespread culture where players don’t have a final say in their destinies, with exceedingly rare exceptions.However,...
Football History
The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic and it’s impact on Football
Not in Kansas AnymoreA century ago, amidst the poultry and pig farms in a small corner of Kansas, a local doctor became inundated...
Football Books
The Best Football Books of 2020
The False 9 - 0
It's been another eventful year in the world of football. As we look forward to 2021, we have compiled a list of the best...
Liverpool
Big Sam’s tactics against Liverpool show the template to stifle Klopp’s side
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Two complete opposites came up in the congested Christmas fixture list, as Liverpool in great form sitting at the top of the table look...
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The Meteoric Rise of RB Leipzig: From Tier Five Football to the Champions League
The best football clubs in the world usually have a storied history, years of success, and generations of fans. However, one of the best...
Manchester United
4 players Man United can target in January transfer window to challenge for the title
Manchester United after an up and down start to the season find themselves 5 points behind Liverpool with a game in hand. After being...
Spurs
The Return of Strike Partnerships in the Premier League? Part 1
No matter the make-up, the notion of a strike partnership – two out-and-out attackers, often with very different strengths and calling cards, working seamlessly...
Football Books
Football Books
The Best Football Books of 2020
The False 9 - 0
It's been another eventful year in the world of football. As we look forward to 2021, we have compiled a list of the best...
Football Books
Foul- The Beautiful Game, An Ugly Truth [Book Excerpt]
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The clip-clop of football boot studs on concrete echoed through the tunnel over the hum of distant crowd noise. A drenched team of players...
Football Books
Best Football Analytics Books
We have compiled a list of the best football analytics books for the casual football fan. Football analytics and data science/machine learning in general...
Football Books
The Best Football Books of 2019
It's been another eventful year in the world of football. As we look forward to 2020, we have compiled a list of the best...
Football Books
The Best Football Books of 2018
It's been another eventful year in the world of football. As we look forward to 2019, we have compiled a list of the best...
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After Lionel Messi made it clear via fax that he wants to leave Barcelona, various reports have indicated that Man City are the favourites...
Barcelona
Real Madrid and Barcelona remain the most valuable football clubs
Football is the most popular sport in the world, and so it is understandable that the biggest football clubs will also be some of...
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Analysis of Man City’s 9 league losses or The Importance of Kevin De Bruyne
With debates regarding the PFA Player of the Year vote for the Premier League, I decided to dig deeper and research the Kevin de...
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The Tactical Feud of our Times: Klopp vs Guardiola
The end of a 30-year old wait in conquering the first English tier for Liverpool coincided with a visit from their main rivals the...
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Man City 3:0 Arsenal Tactical Analysis- The Master vs The Apprentice
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Real Madrid
Martin Ødegaard : A ‘failed’ wonderkid on his way to rejuvenation.
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Latest Posts
Football Transfers
Do Premier League Players Have a Say in Their Transfers?
The False 9 - 0
Americans know that in sports, there is a widespread culture where players don’t have a final say in their destinies, with exceedingly rare exceptions.However,...
Football History
The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic and it’s impact on Football
Not in Kansas AnymoreA century ago, amidst the poultry and pig farms in a small corner of Kansas, a local doctor became inundated...
Football Books
The Best Football Books of 2020
The False 9 - 0
It's been another eventful year in the world of football. As we look forward to 2021, we have compiled a list of the best...
Liverpool
Big Sam’s tactics against Liverpool show the template to stifle Klopp’s side
Josh Jaswal - 0
Two complete opposites came up in the congested Christmas fixture list, as Liverpool in great form sitting at the top of the table look...
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The Original Invincibles- Preston North End 1888/89
In the wake of Manchester City’s record-breaking claim to the Premier League, The False 9 will look back at some of the greatest club...
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The long & bizarre history behind why Red Bull chose Leipzig as the hub for their football club
When Red Bull tried to set foot into German football for the first time, they initially tried to use the same method they had...
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The ironic situation at Olympique de Marseille
The False 9 - 0
Since the American Businessman, Frank McCourt bought the club in 2016, and despite a Europa League final two years ago, OM has failed to...
Classic
English Football and its “Get Stuck-In” Mentality
It was a glum group of players and supporters who filed out of Matlock Town’s Causeway Lane ground in 1982. Hyde United had lost...
Barcelona
Cruyffism through Spain
Spain has developed a unique commitment to technical football which has put them in good stead to make the past decade a period of Spanish dominance. The story to this dominance begin decades before hand when Cruyff decided that Barcelona would be the club he would next manage after his time at Ajax was over. He would create a cohesive identity for the club which kept the vision while finding success. This vision began with a number of manager who came before Cruyff but after Cruyff left, there would be many managers in Spain who would use his methods to discovery their own success.
Football History
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The Football match which started a war
Plenty of football stadiums have statues standing outside of them. There's strange one here and there (Michael Jackson formerly outside Craven Cottage springs to...
Football History
Serie A’s Last Outsiders Part 1: Hellas Verona, 1984/1985
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With the 2020–2021 Serie A underway, there is a general sense of uncertainty about a league that has fallen from the heights of its...
Classic
Descent into darkness: Osvaldo Zubeldia and the era of antifutbol
EVEN if Billy McNeill was really nicknamed Cesar rather than Caesar, there was no denying that the scene on May 25, 1967, was one...
Football History
Great Squads From History – Bayer Leverkusen 2001-2002
The False 9 - 0
The 2001-02 great Bayer Leverkusen side is infamous for their incredible choke job in the last stretch of the season, losing out on three...
Classic
Remembering Arthur Wharton: The First Black Professional Footballer
Will Slater - 0
In an interview from 1888, Arthur Wharton recalled overhearing a conversation between two fellow track competitors some years before. “Who’s he,” one rhetorically asked,...
