- 1. From Mick Channon to Michael Owen: the players who hated training ...
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- Embed from Getty Images Being paid to play football all day might sound like a great job to most of us, but for many players training sessions are seen as an unbearable chore 10 August ~ One of the ...
- Created on 10 August 2017
- 2. Norwich keepers’ training goes viral ...
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- Created on 13 October 2016
- 3. Full training provided ...
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- Ken Bates has given the Chelsea job to former players before with mixed results, so Mike Ticher wonders if Gianluca Vialli can cut it “John Hollins was a mistake. He has a very strong wife. It might ...
- Created on 14 April 1998
- 4. Pre-match rituals: from Kenny Dalglish trimming toenails to scotch at Old Trafford
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- ... he said, “Macca had the best technique.” What this constitutes is an utter mystery, but the ceremonial nature of this task was performed every Friday before a game at their Melwood training ground, with ...
- Created on 17 December 2018
- 5. Jamie Vardy's academy helps non-League players follow in his footsteps
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- ... going to work full-time and then heading straight to training afterwards. You play on Saturday and then you’re back to work on Monday. You’re constantly chasing time. It can be a hard slog.” After earning ...
- Created on 10 December 2018
- 6. Sign, seal, deliver: the booming business of autograph hunting
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- ... a convenient base to relate the discussion around changing attitudes because the stories about kids waiting outside the Melwood training ground for autographs are legendary. In the 1960s manager Bill Shankly ...
- Created on 22 October 2018
- 7. From Sunday league shouts to ultras karaoke – exploring the sounds of football
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- ... training pitch of Portuguese village club Grupo Desportivo de Parada, while Ronnie Close’s documentary film More Out of Curiosity captures at close quarters the emphatically audible protests of Al Ahly ...
- Created on 08 October 2018
- 8. Kaiser! The greatest footballer never to play football
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- ... game. Smyth attempts to portray Raposo as a shameless, though endearing, schmoozer, able to talk his way into securing multiple contracts and then through the simple means of feigning injury in training, ...
- Created on 26 September 2018
- 9. It Is What It Is: The Carlton Palmer story
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- ... with a clear plan and a point to prove. What could go wrong?” to “You find the only enjoyment in the job is the training. Gradually you come to realise that you hate match days” and beyond, in ten pages ...
- Created on 22 August 2018
- 10. Back of the net flix: marketing is now masquerading as documentary
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- ... teams around the globe in The Streets Don’t Lie, a curiously jaunty reality show where former France striker Djibril Cissé scouts talent overlooked by big clubs before bundling them off for a week of trainin ...
- Created on 20 August 2018
- 11. Street Child World Cup gives voice to young people around globe
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- ... It’s here that the stories really begin to resonate. Treated as footballers for a week – giving interviews, training, travelling and bonding as a squad – it is easy to forget that the players are children ...
- Created on 06 August 2018
- 12. Old Too Soon, Smart Too Late: My Story by Kieron Dyer
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- ... Pistone to a tearful wreck on the Newcastle training ground. Dyer acknowledges that he could have achieved more in his playing career if he’d made better decisions as a young man, but also makes a fair ...
- Created on 18 July 2018
- 13. World In Motion: The inside story of Italia 90 by Simon Hart
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- ... is told by Czech striker Ivo Knoflicek. Spirited away from a training camp in Hanover with a promise of a contract with Derby County, he eventually arrived at the Baseball Ground on a bought Bolivian passport ...
- Created on 10 July 2018
- 14. The Man Who Kept The Red Flag Flying by Wayne Barton
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- ... perhaps recognising that his true métier was working with players on the pitch rather than in the boardroom. There is a bust of him in the museum, and a young player of the year award and a training unit ...
- Created on 13 June 2018
- 15. Any Given Saturday by Shay Given
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- ... puts it, is enacted each morning at City’s training ground as the monomaniacal Mancini, like Keane, comes into conflict with almost everyone he meets, and by the time City win their first trophy for 35 ...
- Created on 08 June 2018
- 16. Cut-throat academies abandon children to broken dreams and mental heath issues
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- ... Premier League club – renowned for bringing young “local” boys through their system – used this to bring in players from distances of 120 miles away. This meant two-hour round trips just for training on ...
- Created on 31 May 2018
- 17. Sporting president under pressure to step down after fans attack players
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- Embed from Getty Images Several players were injured when supporters stormed Sporting’s training ground ahead of the cup final, rounding off a toxic season in Portugal 17 May ~ Tuesday was possibly ...
- Created on 17 May 2018
- 18. Thou Shalt Not Pass: The Alistair Robertson story
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- ... too, such as that of the “sea of green and yellow” at Boundary Park as the club won promotion under Giles in 1976, or Cyrille Regis knocking Wile over to power home a header on his first day at training, ...
- Created on 16 May 2018
- 19. Klopp: Bring the noise by Raphael Honigstein
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- ... ot least the uber-competitiveness which as a player sometimes made him a pain to team-mates in training sessions. But this is accompanied by his trademark self-deprecation, drawing engagingly on his limits ...
- Created on 26 April 2018
- 20. How Neville Southall's Twitter account made him a hero of the left
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- ... redemption). The mid-to-late 1980s, when Southall was at his brilliant peak, were notoriously an era of post-training pub binges, drink driving, racecourse punch-ups and sexual misdemeanours, a grotesqu ...
- Created on 18 April 2018
