Goodbye Marcelo Bielsa, hello Premier League
Marcelo Bielsa's obsessive practice of his life's work gives football the true seriousness it needs for us to remember that it's only a game.
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The company parts company
Marcelo Bielsa should be a football club owner's dream. Can you help him? No. He is here to help you.
Leeds United 0-4 Tottenham: Let down
Marcelo Bielsa, of course, will never give up, and that's why they say he's going to lose his job.
The Golden Vision, something better you can do
Birth, marriage, sex, work, death, religion and salvation in the hereafter. Football has beaten down and replaced them all. But when this film interweaves interviews with Everton's actual players, such consuming football passion turns ominous.
In the NFC decider, 49ers were a cool team dressed badly
LUFC kissing cousins the 49ers were going for the Super Bowl, against a team that looked like LUFC should.
Four seconds for the last four: 49ers and Jimmy G in a play-off smell test
Time for some good old fashioned pathetic fallacy, Jimmy Garoppolo dragging a sled of brandy like a rescue husky through a blizzard.
Here's the 49ers taking on slime monsters, SpongeBob and the Cowboys in a wildcard play-off
Don't forget the Niners have hitched themselves to the Leeds United funtrain, and anything play-off related just isn't going to be that easy.
49ers took their play-off hopes into overtime, kept fighting
It's a few weeks since we checked in with our San Franciscan kissing cousins, and already this weekend it was the vital regular season closer.
Pawel Cibicki needs pals right now
That season Leeds proved that real life isn't like Football Manager, and you can't just set a European search for 15+ potential and throw a team together, not least because what you get in real life are not avatars, but real people who crave real German sausages.
Now we've got a takeover time and price, let's take interest in the 49ers again
The Athletic say the bit by bit investment that 49ers Enterprises, the money-not-football arm growing from throwing-not-kicking club San Fransisco 49ers, has a structure to it that we didn't know about before.