Match Tactics
Protecting a Lead in Football Without Inviting Pressure
Your team is 1-0 up with 20 minutes left, and every instinct on the bench says drop deeper, clear it long, and hold on.
Match tactics and analysis writer
Callum spent years coaching at semi-professional level before moving to writing full time. He watches matches back at half speed more often than he would like to admit, and writes about tactics the way he used to explain them to his own squad.
Match Tactics
Your team is 1-0 up with 20 minutes left, and every instinct on the bench says drop deeper, clear it long, and hold on.
Match Tactics
Your team dominates the ball for 70 minutes, loses it once on the edge of the opposition box, and concedes a goal from a single...
Player Development
A 1.72 metre centre-back once told me he had stopped going for headers against big strikers because "there's no point".
Coaching Notes
Most amateur sides pick a captain in about ninety seconds.
Games
Any football supporter who has watched a cup draw live knows the feeling.
Player Development
Watch a good central midfielder for the ten seconds before a pass reaches him and count how often his head turns.