There’s exotic and there’s this to add to the palate: the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rican national leagues(both currently in offseason) have their own YouTube channels w/livestreamed matches👀

Even though he’s prob fallen off just a tad(plus he’s no spring chicken now he’s in his early 70s), I’d do most anything to secure his services once Popa’s done after the Asian Cup; Bielsa is who we’d need to improve our pool of decidedly-average players, and this video delves into how he goes...

Having said that, Jordy Bos could do a lot worse than build up his upper-body strength closer to that of say, the AFL player Josh Rachele. He needs to💡

*Waddingham

That’d just confirm what a gaggle of clueless, shameless dillwads the current suits-in-charge are.

There’s this movie SAIPAN about Ireland’s disastrous preparation for their 🇰🇷🇯🇵 ‘02 WC campaign that culminated in Roy Keane walking out on the squad; it stars UK comedy-veteran Steve Coogan as then-🇮🇪 NT gaffer Mick McCarthy: And here’s the clip of the climactic bust-up between McCarthy and...

Ideally one in the vein of the AFL/NRL Footy Shows, rather than solely rehashing Cup Fever!’s formula💡

With Popa or any coach in his and Arnie’s mold in charge of the NT, it quite dampens the enthusiasm though😔

Was def the case w/big Harry; dunno about the others.

Finally watched it last night - by the time it finished I sincerely didn’t want it to end, but it was an absolute fucking masterpiece of a historical 🇦🇺⚽️ documentary nonetheless - that “WogBall” one from a couple of weeks ago could never, by comparison. Others have mentioned this in the...

[Update] FESFUT(El Salvador’s FA) started running another of these camps in Milan for their NT-eligible youngsters based in mainland Europe yesterday through till July 19th : Football Australia, whenTF will you learn..❓😔

Not particularly😌 That said, if they resist the temptation to operate exactly as Clive Palmer did, they’ll prob get by OK(ish) enough.

Never heard of ‘em before this morning, which is prob a lowkey red-flag. Hopefully they turn out to be kosher and not Palmer/Matheson/Tinkler revisited.

Dunno about now, but back in the day Latin footballing culture used to look down on that; it was seen as a last resort at best and tactical-cowardice at worst. Successfully playing out from the back under pressure was what earned respect in those circumstances, definitely. I recall that in his...

As a nation we’ve too many other cultural-⚽️ing influences besides England/the wider UK for that theory to hold water in this specific instance.