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Career in Shambles

The beautiful game, dissected by people who can't trap a bag of cement. Alternative tactics & brutal business truths.

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Business Strategy

Football Business Profitability: The Big Lie

Tesco generates similar revenues, but supermarkets actually create profit. Football clubs just burn it. A deep dive into the financial chaos behind the beautiful game.

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Sunday League tactical disaster
Pitch Tactics

Stop Playing Out The Back

Stop conceding cheap goals just because your hungover center-back thinks he's John Stones. A tactical intervention for amateur football.

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Culture & Structure

The Complete English Football Pyramid

From billion-pound Premier League boardrooms down to mud-soaked village greens. The true scale of the English game documented.

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