Making it as a professional footballer is not easy. Making it when you are the son of a footballing legend is really not easy. To make it after finding out at 7 years old that your legendary father, who is still considered one of the best Italian players of all time, dies in Italian football’s […]
Author : Steven Humphreys
Paradigm FC: By the Book
In Dennis Bergkamp’s biography, Stillness and Speed, he alluded to an over-coaching problem which had been tainting his club, Ajax, at that time. He was working there as Under 19’s assistant manager: “They (the coaches) all have their badges, and they are all very sympathetic and know exactly how to play football and what kind […]
Paradigm FC: Commodification, the Systems World and Language.
* In a series of articles, I will be looking at a concept caused by the paradigm of the day and how it has seeped into football, how to spot it, how it affects football, and what football, as a lens, can teach us about the goings on in the broader societal landscape, away from […]
Paradigm FC
For the coming weeks, in a series of articles, I will be looking at a concept caused by the paradigm of the day and how it has seeped into football, how to spot it, and what football, as a lens, can teach us about the goings on in the broader societal landscape, away from the […]
Packing, Kieron Dyer, England and the Media
A few years back, a retired German player by the name of Stefan Reinartz came up with a new metric in football. In short, he and his team analyse how many players were ‘taken out’ or bypassed during the 90 minutes by assigning a numerical value to effective passing and dribbles. They called it ‘Packing’. […]