His free kick technique is based on Juninho and involves striking the ball with only the last 3 toes iirc.
― pandemic, Thursday, 23 April 2015 19:54 (nine years ago) link
Just finished Ronald Reng's Matchdays. Really enjoyed it a sort of history of the bundesliga through the playing and management career of Heinz Höher (someone I had never heard of). By the end when he's training Juri Judt by himself and encouraging him it's p sad.
― pandemic, Thursday, 7 April 2016 14:44 (eight years ago) link
About 1/3 of the way thru Michael Calvin's 'Living On The Volcano'. Between Shaun Derry,Ian Holloway and Mark Hughes there's plenty of good QPR stuff including Julio Cesar advising Derry to buy a helicopter instead of commuting for 2 hours into training. The Martin Ling stuff is scary as is the Brendon Rodgers stuff though for completely different reasons.
― pandemic, Sunday, 10 April 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link
He sets the scene in a style worthy of a local garda novel when describing his first meeting with John Still....
"in a rain lashed Portokabin in the garden suburbs of Luton, where a black plastic dustbin asking for donations 'for Africa' contains a solitary football boot."
― pandemic, Monday, 11 April 2016 11:49 (eight years ago) link
also chronicles an aside from Sean Dyche - these guys are going to be regarded as rock legends (on Kasabian)
― pandemic, Monday, 11 April 2016 11:51 (eight years ago) link
Poch book is really good
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Friday, 10 November 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
revelatory stuff in the p crouch book... james mcclean puts hp sauce on the majority of his meals up to and including rice pudding!
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link