Après fizz
As Red Bull's energy football goes out of style, it's leaving frantic, effervescent players like Brenden Aaronson marooned on uncertain, shifting terrain, trying to learn what RB never taught them.
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The mess Meslier is in
Illan Meslier's 9,600 minutes in the Premier League alone are 600 more minutes than Perri has played in his entire career. The simple truism comes to goalkeepers before others, about doing much too much, much too young, and Meslier has grown up in much too bright a spotlight.
Will the hottest trend win the overheated World Cup? or, long throwing in the USA
The Premier League fad might be the ideal tactic for a sweaty, exhausting, stop-start tournament of drinks breaks, storm delays and keeping the ball out of play so everyone can rest.
It's called a long throw, and here's what it's for, so
Football finally has long throws to offer its modern, phone-watching fans, but only Leeds United are brave enough for bringing flick-ons back.
"I want the person I'm talking to to feel my gratitude": Marcelo Bielsa goes back to Chile
Focused before the game, warm and reflective afterwards, Marcelo Bielsa brought happy memories on his long awaited return to Chile.
Marcelo Bielsa speaking in Uruguay: enthusiasm, running, and everything else
Before his Uruguay team took on Peru, Marcelo Bielsa went deep on what's important, what's important to analyse, and how one crack player can solve it all.
Jack Harrison is just a footballer
He's a football player and that's very different to being a football supporter and, refreshingly if you want it to be, Harrison doesn't try to blur the lines.
Close to the sun with Patrick Bamford
It's our shared bruises from our Icarus natures that I hope, eventually, will unite Bamford and Leeds in feeling less raw and more joy, pride and super-happiness.
Sitting on the dock of the Bay window
This is what you get for buying a football club in the 2020s. Your key performance indicator is now the most rotten of metrics, social media vibes, and you owe your livelihood to Fabrizio Romano tweeting something positive.
How Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Leeds United just might work
An experienced Premier League striker who has scored two consecutive seasons in double figures and played and scored for England, who just needs to stay fit and recover the form he showed under Carlo Ancelotti for the next few years to become the prime of his career — and he's free?