At a Uruguayan FA summit, with five of his coaching staff on chairs and sofas alongside him, Marcelo Bielsa gave a presentation about what, he said, "we do in our free time".
Players aren't on the list, let alone given a close-up in sight or sound: it's everything but the game. Zoom in and overdub them if you have to, but I'm yearning for this World Cup to give me lingering long takes over the knees of Ao Tanaka.
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Gabriel Gudmundsson was asked what exactly had been wrong with him, and replied, "I don’t want to go into it. It’s better to keep it secret." Which came to my mind when Marcelo Bielsa told the press: "I believe there's a limit in terms of what we need to explain."
"Look, there’s no secret to the way we play," Bielsa said. "But, well, those are intentions, and then we have to make them a reality."
John Charles was a proud Welshman who, like many footballers, loved representing his country. He faced a barrier to his international aspirations, though, because he was the best player in the world.
Players aren't on the list, let alone given a close-up in sight or sound: it's everything but the game. Zoom in and overdub them if you have to, but I'm yearning for this World Cup to give me lingering long takes over the knees of Ao Tanaka.
Tactics, strategy and many, many PowerPoints. We got a new team and we're getting a new West Stand, so how are things looking in the manager's office and the boardroom?
One by one, and goal by goal, let's rate Leeds United's attackers from last season in descending order of how many minutes they played.
Nobody could get through Leeds United's midfield last season, but we can go through them now, one by one in descending order of minutes, to remember how they get on.
Let's go through Leeds United's tacklers, blockers and catchers of the season, one by one, in descending order of minutes played.
Leeds got so bored of waiting for the team that was supposedly fighting for its life to actually do anything that they submitted to the sunshine, and the heat, and the fact the season was going to be all over in twenty minutes anyway.