Match Tactics
Why Pressing High Is Harder Than It Looks on Paper
On a tactics board, a high press looks simple. Your forwards close down the center backs, your midfielders cut passing lanes,...
Match tactics and analysis writer, page 6 of 7
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
On a tactics board, a high press looks simple. Your forwards close down the center backs, your midfielders cut passing lanes,...
Games
Football is nothing without its fans, and the best football games, from EA Sports FC to Football Manager, understand that the...
Games
Football video games have grown remarkably sophisticated, and the best capture a great deal of what makes the real sport...
Club Heritage
A football club's history is not only in the record books and the memories, it lives in objects, the old programmes, the...
Match Tactics
My nephew got me watching Counter-Strike 2 matches about a year ago, mostly because he wanted someone to argue with about a...
Coaching Notes
A rough pre-season rarely announces itself with a bad result early on, since preseason friendlies are notoriously unreliable...