Michael Cox
Football Writer at The Athletic
Host and Writer at The Athletic Football Tactics Podcast
Journalist at Freelance
Author of Zonal Marking (https://t.co/fS2lRhH2ml) & The Mixer (https://t.co/YH1iKbjnDL). Also @TheAthleticFC.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Michael Walker |Michael Cox
One hundred years ago today, at a meeting at 22 Rue de Londres, Paris, association football - soccer - changed forever. The International Football Association Board voted that Law 11 of the game, the offside law, would be altered from season 1925-26 so that two players would need to be between an attacker and the goal line to remain onside, not three as it had been previously. This was arguably the most significant rule change since football was professionalised in the mid-1880s.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Michael Cox
Increasingly, it feels like there are two separate spells to a managerial tenure. There's the 'personality' period, and the 'philosophy' period. One's a short-term blast, the other's a long-term slog. Ange Postecoglou's tenure at Tottenham Hotspur was somewhat unusual. He was cast almost purely as the latter; a manager who was all about the technical and tactical side of the game, and it seemed clear that Tottenham's path to glory was about understanding and perfecting 'Angeball'.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Michael Cox
All things considered, it will go down as one of the great football performances. Paris Saint-Germain's 5-0 victory over Inter on Sunday night in Munich is the biggest winning margin in the history of the European Cup final. And it was fully deserved. European Cup finals aren't meant to be won like this.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Colin Millar |Michael Cox
Simone Inzaghi insists it's "not the right time to talk about the future" after his Inter side lost the Champions League final to Paris Saint-Germain. Saudi Pro League side Al Hilal have presented the 49-year-old Italian with a lucrative offer in an attempt to lure him away after four years in charge at San Siro. Ahead of the final, Inzaghi said he was "happy" at the club amid uncertainty over his future and asked again on Saturday night he refused to divulge what his next step may or may not be.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Michael Cox
Football's coming home. Or, at least, the European Cup is. It was in the offices of French sports newspaper L'Equipe, on Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre in the centre of Paris, where this competition was invented back in 1954. The city hosted the inaugural final, and another five since. But the trophy has never been back in Paris by rights - which wouldn't have been a huge surprise to those journalists back in 1954, considering Paris Saint-Germain itself was 16 years away from being formed.
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Postecoglou at Spurs was essentially the opposite of the manager he was framed as. He did two great “short-term” jobs: a new manager bounce, and then a back-to-basics spell to win a trophy. The long-term philosophy stuff? Less solid. https://t.co/xgyQ2mOc58
RT @TheAthleticFC: All things considered, it will go down as one of the great football performances. Paris Saint-Germain's 5-0 victory over…
RT @Zonal_Marking: the European Cup was invented in Paris, and now it's finally going back there for a year (at least). Report from Munich…
