Ruuuuuuud!
Soccer
Madeleine Penfold on the power of stories and photographing the Women’s World Cup. The tournament starts on 20th July in Australia.
Big announcement from Miles Jacobson on the future of FM: Football Manager 2024 will be the 20th game in Sports Interactive’s Football Manager series, and will be the last of its kind.
Football Manager 2025 will also be the FM game to use Unity as its 3D engine.
Hey, Paris! (a new CM01/02 save) — Part Quatre
Season Quatre is over. How did Paris FC do?
Freddy Adu talking about his turbulent soccer career
Much Adu about everything.
Nost FC on Fulham's journey to the 2010 UEFA Europa League final
What a run!
Hey, Paris! (a new CM01/02 save) — Part Trois
Season Trois is over. How did Paris FC do?
Hey, Paris! (a new CM01/02 save) — Part Deux
Season Deux is over. How did Paris FC do?
Vinícius Jr.: an appreciation post
Solidariedade com Vini.
Has every Premier League team been represented by the men's England team since 1992?
Something for the pub quiz!
Remembering Lars Ricken's audacious lob for Borussia Dortmund in the 1997 Champions League final
Magic doesn’t always take that long to conjure.
Here’s Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson speaking fluent French, Swedish, and Italian. He also speaks German but I couldn’t find a video of that.
Tom Thorpe on his mental health struggles and 5 years away from football
‘It was at that point I knew I was fighting a losing battle’
The fallacies of Soccernomics
Imagine Bart Simpson writing “correlation does not imply causation” a hundred times on a chalkboard.
“Football has experienced a statistical revolution in the past decade but, despite the breadth of information at their fingertips, this changing picture is still yet to influence how fans view the game as a whole.” (via)