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Tactical Profile: Shining the Spotlight on Marco Silva’s Fulham
Fulham are chasing European qualification this season under the guidance of Portuguese manager Marco Silva, who is in his sixth season in charge of the West London club. He is a manager who is mainly influenced by two schools of football: “tactical periodisation”, which structures the week of training ahead of a game around how…
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Goals, Graphs and the Death of the Maverick
The modern football fan lives in contradiction, especially in conversations surrounding the Premier League. Every weekend timelines fill with complaints that the game has become robotic, rigid and overcoached. Supporters say they miss flair, personality and chaos. They say they long for the days of mavericks who played on instinct. Yet the same voices…
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The Circle of Tactics
Football is entering a new tactical epoch – but how did we get here? And have we seen it all before? Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Sir Isaac Newton’s famous Third Law of Motion is a cornerstone of physics but can just as easily applied to football tactics. When one team…
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Genoa CFC Flourishing Under Daniele De Rossi
As the final whistle blew on Sunday 25th January there was relief, passion and a very happy fanbase. Genoa came back from 2-0 down at home to Bologna in a crazy game, Bologna had goalkeeper Lukasz Skorupski sent off for a final man challenge. That red card changed the complexion of the game. Just over…
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Denzel Dumfries: The Relentless Engine Powering Inter’s Right Flank
Denzel Dumfries’ journey at Inter Milan has never been short of drama, drive, and decisive moments. Since arriving in 2021, the Dutch right wing-back has faced scrutiny and praise in equal measure. But the 2024–25 season was arguably his most complete and defining campaign yet — a year that combined physical dominance, tactical maturity, and…
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The Dribbling Centre-Back: When Movement Becomes Superiority
You have been lied to. Every coach, every pundit, every tactical analyst has sold you the same illusion—that control is built through numbers, that superiority is found in structure, that the game is a battle of patterns rather than people. They tell you that to progress the ball, you must pass it. That to…
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How Paulo Fonseca got his groove back at Lyon
Paulo Fonseca arrived in Lyon after a negative experience at AC Milan, one that was not entirely his fault, but rather the fault of a nonexistent club, one of the worst in AC Milan’s history, and of a number of players who had never been with him from the start. Despite having proven himself a…
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Michael Carrick, Manchester United, and the Gospel of Relationism
There is a way of playing football that does not begin with space. It begins with people. Before the chalk lines. Before the tactical boards. Before the idea of width or compactness or overloads. There is simply one truth: football is a relationship. Brazil turned this truth into a philosophy. They rejected positional rigidity. …
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Cape Verde’s World Cup Dream: “Project LinkedIn”
The “Blue Sharks” of Cape Verde — a small island nation in the Atlantic Ocean, located west of the African continent — have qualified for the World Cup for the first time this year. They did not qualify through a play-in match or as one of the best second-place finishers, but instead finished at the…
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Morocco: A Long-term Dynasty or a One-Hit Wonder?
During the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Morocco’s national team made history and reached fourth place of the tournament, beating the likes of Spain, Portugal and Belgium. This achievement was not created out of thin air, but rather a result of a long process of developing a football identity and unique style that sparked a chain…
