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Minus the Shooting: a perfect 10?
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Saturday, 14 June 2014. If Raheem Sterling is starting in the No. 10 role for England tonight – behind Sturridge in the middle of the attacking three – then that is a startlingly bold move coming from Roy Hodgson. It's one I would never have predicted given his immediate attempt on starting the job to impose the workmanlike, safety-first 4-4-2 that he'd played throughout his career. NB John Barnes was shunted left or up front). Hopefully, and maybe the coaching profession will too. Posted by Sam Davies.
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Minus the Shooting: June 2014
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Sunday, 22 June 2014. Gerrards Sad Face (first 12). Fine Margins, that's all; England genuflects and Roy gets Woyed by the papers but. Be at least close. 1) a couple of individual errors really cost us and seems to demean England's defence but there's been a million defensive errors throughout the tournament; it's what's made it so exciting. 2) this is nowhere near as dispiriting an exit as that debacle in the group stages last year. We were abject until. 5) the real tragedy is that there are no. 8) Ital...
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Minus the Shooting: New Labours
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Saturday, 14 June 2014. Well, Mark got there first but there's going to be lots written about the Spain vs Netherlands match. It may all come to nothing (it won't) but it certainly felt like an end of an era, even if it's quite hard to settle on exactly what. The era was. Tiki-taka ended sometime around Guardiola moving on from Barcelona but the end was coming even before then, when the Italians played Spain in their first match at the Euros. On the pitch. They wanted it more, they had more to give&#...
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Minus the Shooting: Gerrard's Sad Face (first 12)
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Sunday, 22 June 2014. Gerrards Sad Face (first 12). Fine Margins, that's all; England genuflects and Roy gets Woyed by the papers but. Be at least close. 1) a couple of individual errors really cost us and seems to demean England's defence but there's been a million defensive errors throughout the tournament; it's what's made it so exciting. 2) this is nowhere near as dispiriting an exit as that debacle in the group stages last year. We were abject until. 5) the real tragedy is that there are no. 8) Ital...
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Minus the Shooting: June 2012
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Wednesday, 27 June 2012. The Golden Years (Andrea Pirlo's One Man War Against Information Overload). Even before he dished out a supremely understated lesson in how to deconstruct a vaguely spirited yet laughably ill equipped England side last Sunday night, watching Andrea Pirlo – the concept as much as the man, the spectacle as much as the footballer – was already my personal highlight of Euro 2012 so far. All this shit, all of which sounds incredible. You won't hear/read/see it all. We were knee deep i...
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Minus the Shooting: 'The Manner of the Defeat'
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Saturday, 14 June 2014. The Manner of the Defeat'. Anyone who has read my previous posts here can easily imagine my response to the Dutch demolition of Spain last night. As the TV commentary team kept repeating, more important than the fact of defeat was the manner. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Minus the Shooting elsewhere. Minus The Shooting on twitter. Minus contributors on twitter (list of). Contact: minustheshooting2012 at gmail dot com. World Cup 2010 edition. Bat, Bean, Beam. Straight off th...
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Minus the Shooting: Hodgson's Choice
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Friday, 22 June 2012. So far, the diminished expectations of England's chances have resulted in relatively little scrutiny of Roy Hodgson's selection choices. The consensus that the pool of players he has to drawn on is irredeemably mediocre has dulled the usual bitter acrimony surrounding who's been selected and who hasn't. The one controversial managerial decision so far - to leave Rio Ferdinand behind - was made, despite Hodgson's protestations to the contrary, for non-footballing reasons. Clearly, in...
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