The Nottingham Forest academy prospect on life as an academy footballer, his journey and sacrifices, and his next steps. Every club needs their youth prospects: the players who point the way forward, who portend better times ahead. From a young age, they are nurtured to perfection, inhabiting a world that runs on rhythms and routines,Continue reading “Nottingham Forest’s Josh Barnes: “I’ve dedicated my whole life for that one moment.””
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DEMENTIA IN FOOTBALL: The game’s biggest scandal
My final project at university, a 4,000 word print portfolio on Dementia in Football: The game’s biggest scandal. Below are screenshots of my Adobe PDF. If you would like me to email a copy, please email alexjones8799@gmail.com Thanks! In the early 2000’s, Nobby Stiles started developing the early signs of dementia: the gradual draining ofContinue reading “DEMENTIA IN FOOTBALL: The game’s biggest scandal”
Thomas Tuchel must overcome the tests that have ultimately sank his recent predecessors
The managerial career of Thomas Tuchel is a funny old thing. His five years at Mainz saw him tasked with continuing the legacy Jurgen Klopp: the high press, the hard running, the flexibility needed in his tactics to change style when the opposition demanded it. His stint at Borussia Dortmund, where he again incorporated aContinue reading “Thomas Tuchel must overcome the tests that have ultimately sank his recent predecessors”
If this annihilated summer of sport teaches us anything, it’s that sport without the fans is nothing
Perhaps like many football fans who have read the suggestions that this season may be completed behind closed doors amidst the coronavirus pandemic, I have found myself becoming increasingly irked at the authorities. This period of sporting absence must be treated as a learning curve, not a time of sorrow. The thought of a fullContinue reading “If this annihilated summer of sport teaches us anything, it’s that sport without the fans is nothing”
Bruno Fernandes takes the spotlight in United’s victory over Watford
For a moment all is silence. Bruno Fernandes stands poised. Old Trafford pauses with him. Fernandes waits. There’s two sidesteps to the left, and a leap as he feigns to shoot. Then the rippling of the net. It takes a certain confidence in a player to take a crucial penalty in only your third ManchesterContinue reading “Bruno Fernandes takes the spotlight in United’s victory over Watford”
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