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This is my Lemmy account.
Also on Mastodon: @hallenbeck
And Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hallenbeck.thelastboyscout.uk
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
Hamstring injuries are up 96% compared to last season (lemmy.world)
Sources:...
[BBC Sport] Why are Premier League injuries at a new high? (www.bbc.com)
Injury crisis: The Premier League has seen a record number of injuries this season, with 196 in just over three months. Newcastle and Manchester United are the worst-hit teams with 14 players injured each this season....
The Biggest Danger To English Football, Salary Caps and How Much Money Do Football Clubs Lose? - The Rest Is Football (pca.st)
cross-posted from: mastodon.online/users/…/111438924092907782...
[The Guardian] Everton’s deduction is a tremor – City and Chelsea may face the earthquake (www.theguardian.com)
Summary...
Tifo Football Podcast: Is too much football causing injuries? (pca.st)
cross-posted from: mastodon.online/users/…/111416599829567870...
Chelsea FC face new questions over how Roman Abramovich funded success (summary of article below 👇) (www.theguardian.com)
Leaked files reveal Chelsea FC received a series of secret payments worth tens of millions of pounds over 10 years from former owner Roman Abramovich. These may have breached football financial rules....
Ali Gold asked Postecoglou: Is there a chance that the amount of waiting around players are doing now with VAR can lead to more muscle injuries? (www.football.london)
Postecoglou: “Absolutely. I am not going to draw a direct correlation to Micky’s injury but I was half-tempted to throw some balls out there for them to kick around. It’s the reason we have warm-ups but if you’re going into a game, the fact there was only 47 minutes of game time the other night in whatever it was, 110,...
[Official] Interview: Vicario reacts to his incredible display against Chelsea (www.youtube.com)
Rio Ferdinand's Between The Lines ft. Ange Postecoglou | Media Training, Tactics and Harry Kane Void (www.youtube.com)
Flav on TalkSPORT on Arteta's outburst. Is he right? What do you think? (youtu.be)
He makes a lot of sense. Unless managers (and fans) proactively act together, and have a calm and ongoing dialogue nothing will improve. Instead, managers rant and rave post-match in a knee-jerk way and only when it goes against them. Get together and deal with it like adults. Less of the drama.
[The Athletic] Why Spurs struck gold when they signed Guglielmo Vicario – Charlie Eccleshare (theathletic.com)
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[BBC] 'One of the most mind-boggling Premier League games ever' (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/7914713...
[Ali Gold] What Rob Mackenzie will bring to Postecoglou and Spurs' new recruitment team (tldr summary below 👇) (www.football.london)
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Son's top 10 "best" goals according to xG and PSxG (lemmy.world)
I was digging around in Son’s data on FBref recently, exploring his phenomenal xG overperformane (see here) and thought I’d dig out his goals that are both low xG (harder to score) and high PSxG (post-shot xG - quality of shot, difficulty to save)....
Vote for Cuti Romero as your Premier League player of the month. (plpotm.easports.com)
[The Athletic] Leonardo Gabbanini on leaving Spurs, working with Ange, and recruiting Van de Ven and Co – Adam Leventhal, Nov 2, 2023 (theathletic.com)
tl;dr summary:...
The Changing Face of Scouting: Rob Mackenzie’s full series of articles (www.skysports.com)
Thanks to @paulk_ for the link to this....
Some players Rob Mackenzie has had a role in scouting (lemmy.world)
A list of some players Rob Mackenzie has had a role in scouting:...
[Nihal Arthanayake] Why I'm keeping shtum on Tottenham winning the Premier League (www.standard.co.uk)
”But let me state this very clearly: we must not get ahead of ourselves. Even though by the end of play today we may well be five points clear at the top of the table we must remember, without smirking too much, what happened to Arsenal last season.”
Is Son one of the best finishers EVER? Let's look at some data. 👇 (files.mastodon.online)
cross-posted from: mastodon.online/users/…/111293316231491706...
Ange Postecoglou becomes first manager to take 23 points in their first 9 games in the Premier League. Impressive. (lemmy.world)
Rory Jennings: "It's actually the performance of potential champions. Ooh it's painful to say – but it really... is... true" (www.youtube.com)