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FIXING MANCHESTER CITY 2025

DISCLAIMER: THIS WAS WRITTEN BEFORE ANY CURRENT TRANSFERS AND I STILL RATE MY WINDOW OVER CITY’S CURRENTLY (I’M JUST A SLOW EDITOR EVERYONE) With this being the first season without a trophy for Pep (not counting the illustrious Community Shield) since his first in England, there is work

EPL 24/25 PREDICTIONS REVIEW

UCL GROUP STAGE 16/17 MANCHESTER CITY VS BARCELONA

EPL ROUND 7 16/17 TOTTENHAM VS MANCHESTER CITY

So similar to my last two game reviews this will be a two part series I am calling "Stick or Twist". It focuses on two games from early on in Pep’s initial season at City, when he was still finding his feet. This first game was City’

HOW IM GOING TO IMPROVE AS A COACH IN 2025

So to start off the year I thought it would be good to talk about how I plan to get better this year but also just in general. I also hope that other coaches will share some of the ways they look to improve as well. Of course we all

LESSONS FROM LEVEL 1 TALENT ID

ARSENAL 23/24 DEFENCE ANALYSIS

Since I started coaching, the defensive side has always come easier to me and also for the first few years was more of a focus. Why it came easier than attack I’m not so sure, I spent most of my youth career as a forward in various positions and

ROUND OF 16 UCL 15/16 BAYERN VS JUVENTUS

So this will be a continuation of my last article, where the focus was on how shape can win or lose you a game. This one will be about tactics/players. I use the term interchangeably, as for me they are one and the same. Most people will describe a

LESSONS FROM LEVEL TWO

This was the second step in my European coaching journey and made me truly international with it being in Wales. Similar to my article on the Level One this will be part review/part what I have learnt since the start of the year while doing this course. It will

EUROPA LEAGUE FINAL 16/17 AJAX VS MANCHESTER UNITED

This is my first game review and I will be using this series to show off my tactical nous and opposition analysis. This game is the first in a two part series where we look at shape winning the game vs decisions (players) winning the game. It will make more

HOW TO TEACH POSITIONAL PLAY

EPL 24/25 PREDICTIONS

Time flies when you’re having fun and for this to be the second year in this series already feels so quick. I have a lot more articles planned/in the edit stage to delve deeper in to the tactical side of the game but these opinion ones are fun

EPL POUNDS VS PENCE 11 23/24 REVIEW

As you can probably tell by the title today I will be reviewing the two teams I selected at the start of the season. Link to the full article can be found below but the gist of it is I wanted to pick a team that cost half as much

EPL 23/24 PREDICTIONS REVIEW

If you have 100% belief in my picks you can just stop reading here and we can all pretend I got 60 points (3 for every correct place) and go home. Unfortunately for me, as they say, ‘the game is not played on paper’. I did manage to get a