Skoorb
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This made me smile.....laugh out loud really. Honestly..... football journos. 
They always think they're on the cutting edge with their reporting and the idea that this has been branded as something fresh 'out of the box' thinking by a new generation of radical thinkers about football tactics whose use of social media to 'spread the word' affords some kind of superior legitimacy.......
‘It was just perfect’: the TikTok kick-off tactic sweeping European football'
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...a8BKg4IACoGCAowl6p7MN-zCQ&utm_content=bullets
I would like one of them to explain to me how this differs from the tactical approach advocated by Charles Hughes in the 1990s. He became the senior coach at the FA and essentially his match analysis concluded that:-
Effectively 'long ball'......read on for more. It just tickled me that this 'phenomenon' is being branded as something new. It isn't.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hughes_(football_manager)
They always think they're on the cutting edge with their reporting and the idea that this has been branded as something fresh 'out of the box' thinking by a new generation of radical thinkers about football tactics whose use of social media to 'spread the word' affords some kind of superior legitimacy.......‘It was just perfect’: the TikTok kick-off tactic sweeping European football'
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...a8BKg4IACoGCAowl6p7MN-zCQ&utm_content=bullets
I would like one of them to explain to me how this differs from the tactical approach advocated by Charles Hughes in the 1990s. He became the senior coach at the FA and essentially his match analysis concluded that:-
" most goals were scored from three passes or fewer, therefore it was important to get the ball quickly forward as soon as possible."
Eventually this dropped out of fashion because it undervalued the development of core skills, technical abilities, tactical awareness and flexibility in a generation of players. It was the manual used on an FA coaching badge course I took in the 1990s.Effectively 'long ball'......read on for more. It just tickled me that this 'phenomenon' is being branded as something new. It isn't.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hughes_(football_manager)
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