Always thinking, coaching, writing. Always football.

He never really looked like a footballer. The squat little Argentinian magician, infamous for a certain handball but globally famous for his dribbling skills. Diego Armando Maradona’s greatness came not…

Bubbles are hexagonal. On July 6th this was how I began an article discussing the shapes that occur in nature relative to the shapes that occur on the football pitch.…

  You will have you heard this bit before. Scoring goals in football is important. Obvious right? The obvious can be a good place to start. The last decade has…

Bubbles are hexagonal. More precisely, a raft of bubbles is hexagonal. Nothing but physics guides the shape of the raft. There are no bees to craft a hexagonal hive. Merely…

The telling of story’s has been a defining characteristic of humanity through the ages. Stories engage the imagination, mind and spirit. They can be used purely to entertain or to…

In Germany they are deeply proud of the Akademie. It is in this school of football that the coaches we see working at the very top of German football gained…

It all started with Pele. His legendary tally of 1,281 goals sits as a sacred marker. The great benchmark. Except we all know it is mostly bunk. Pele included goals…

"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." This quote from Niels Bohr is one of my favourites of all time and will never tire of using it (nor apologise…

A recap. My mission was to return Deportivo la Coruna to their Super Depor status. After four seasons I stepped away to attempt the 1000 goal challenge (which was completed…

Sport is simple. We win, we lose or we have deadlock (in some cases deadlock is resolved by use of another mechanism). On this scale a coach has a simple…