Jacob Hansen

2 months ago | tribalfootball.com | Jacob Hansen

They have an expression in German football called the “Bayern Dusel” which Celtic fell victim to in the Allianz Arena. Markus Babbel knows all about what it means. “People say, Bayern Munich are always winning games in stoppage time. When it happens, they go; ‘ah, there’s the Bayern-Dusel again’. But it’s not, it’s because they keep going ‘till the end,” the former Bayern defender points out.

2 months ago | tribalfootball.com | Jacob Hansen

Chelsea are searching for the form they put on display before New Year and one of the players accused of going AWOL is Jadon Sancho. “He’s deceived us”, former Chelsea-player John Obi Mikel stated in his own podcast, but Shaun Wright-Phillips doesn’t entirely agree. AdvertisementAdvertisement“Confidence is a massive thing. You can see in elements of his game that he tries to make things happen. If you look at his past, before he joined Man United, whatever he did also worked.

2 months ago | tribalfootball.com | Jacob Hansen

Argentina has produced not one but two of the best footballers the world has ever seen. Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi. Having two such magicians grace the game, it’s little wonder that the land of silver is arguably the most football crazy country in the world. Which again makes it only fitting that the Argentinian language has an extraordinary vocabulary surrounding football. Just ask Christopher Hylland.

2 months ago | tribalfootball.com | Jacob Hansen

“When you're in a team like Liverpool, Manchester City or Arsenal, you start the season with an objective to win the Premier League. A cup. Perhaps the Champions League. There is an aim. When was the last time Tottenham started the season with a clear aim,” asks Gustavo Poyet, lacking some clearer communication from Spurs supremo Daniel Levy. “Every season it’s, 'OK, let's see what we can do this year', and time has passed, managers have passed and Tottenham are still the same.

2 months ago | tribalfootball.com | Jacob Hansen

When Paul Parker grew up, nothing much was bigger than the FA Cup, so when he won it with Manchester United in 1994 it was a dream come true it’s fair to say. “It's what I grew up to love as a kid. Winning the league didn't mean anything. The FA Cup was the final game of every English season. It was a glamour game; it was eight hours of TV from nine o'clock in the morning and right through the day. The streets of England were just dead, there were no kids kicking footballs around or anything.