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New Sean Dyche interview in the Sunday Times

Great, I'm sure he'll have a new and unique metaphor for changing tactical trends in modern football.

“Big centre forwards are coming back without a doubt,” Dyche says. “The way block defences are now, how do you break that down? It will go back to putting the ball forward, putting it in the box. I said three or four years ago, the next clamour will be for No9s and look now, everyone wants No9s again. It will be strikers who can link. Football is like skinny jeans and flared jeans. It all comes back around.”

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u/jacksonkeir — 11 days ago
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Thirst: The Movie

After today's discussion, I am now obsessed with how one might go about casting and filming Thirst as an outrageous piece of Oscar bait.

I think on balance it'd work best a Muppets Christmas Carol type set up.

Every person is played by a Muppet, except for John who plays himself.

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u/jacksonkeir — 13 days ago
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What is the most "name written on an England flag" town?

One of the minor consolations in an England match petering out towards the end is a chance to spot the variety of towns, cities and clubs represented by England fans, in flag form.

When you mentally picture a flag hanging down over the edge of the stand, with a club or town name printed over the central cross, what name instinctively springs to mind for you?

Stevenage or Carlisle, for me Clive.

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u/jacksonkeir — 15 days ago
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50 Years of the Panenka

This feels very Cliches-adjacent, and is also a pleasingly unhinged article concept that I'm delighted the Guardian have run with - listing the 50 most famous Panenka attempts is a real Monkey Tennis level idea. Great stuff

It is 50 years since Antonin Panenka won the European Championship for Czechoslovakia with the most audacious penalty ever taken. His signature chip wasn’t instantly eponymous. A search of the British newspaper archives shows that it was barely mentioned until Francesco Totti dusted it off for the internet generation at Euro 2000.

It was at least another decade before Panenka was commonly used as a noun, and it did not have its own Wikipedia page until 2014, but in 2026 every football fan has an idea of what it means. The 50th anniversary is the perfect time to remember 50 of the most famous – and infamous – attempts.

A Panenka is in the eye of the beholder. Ben Lyttleton, doyen of penalties and author of the superb Twelve Yards, asked the man himself what constituted a true Panenka. Their criteria is strict, based on the line of the ball, its trajectory and where it hits the net. But that disqualifies, among others, Zinedine Zidane in the 2006 World Cup final (“This penalty is the obvious misuse of the Panenka classification!”), so we’ve used a looser definition. If the ball was kissed rather than kicked, the penalty is eligible.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2026/aug/03/50-of-the-most-famous-and-infamous-panenka-penalties-of-all-time

u/jacksonkeir — 2 months ago
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"Trialist" in Pre-Season Lineups

Fully in favour of the sainted tradition of listing an uncontracted player as "trialist" in friendly matches, but for some reason it does seem a bit discordant for a Championship club to be doing it. Feels like the preserve of much more lower league outfits.

u/Simple-Isopod-7139 — 3 months ago
▲ 248 r/footballcliches

Dave Walker looking like he's just been parachuted in to manage a crisis-ridden African nation at the World Cup

Courtesy of the latest England pod - absolutely iconic look from the great man

u/jacksonkeir — 4 months ago
▲ 102 r/BritGolf

Greatest Feeling In Golf?

Playing 9 holes with my wife and six year old son today, and rattling round at a good pace as usual, on the way to an uncharacteristically decent score on my part.

A group of four 30something guys in front waved at us to play through on a short par 4, which was very good of them, as we would have been happy to wait.

They stood aside on the fairway as my son hit three cracking shots in a row to make it onto the green, and then made a fuss of him. Think he walked up to putt feeling like he was Rory McIlroy, and rightly so. Insanely proud of him.

I then hit a pitching wedge from the rough with my second to about six feet from the flag, and got a "great shot, mate" from two of them. Normally I crumble with people watching on and waiting so it felt superb to just nail it.

I don't know, it sometimes feel like the only golf anecdotes you get online are horror stories and moaning about stuff. But I had probably the most life affirming ten minutes I've ever experienced on a golf course today. It's easy to assume everyone is annoying but there are some genuinely lovely people out there.

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u/jacksonkeir — 4 months ago
▲ 219 r/footballcliches

The Americans are, I regret to say, At It again

The Athletic's analysis of the U.S. World Cup squad is, as you'd expect, written in exactly the same style and cadence as all American sportswriting. The obsession with "athleticism" etc., which I'm broadly accepting of as a charming cultural quirk so long as it doesn't bleed into coverage of non-American football.

That said, Brenden Aaronson needing to "show he can be goal dangerous" is a new one for me, and I don't think it's a welcome linguistic innovation:

https://preview.redd.it/7exxfjqcvm3h1.png?width=1456&format=png&auto=webp&s=d1485b9ba482c45ee0e61b486243054cb241adb5

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u/jacksonkeir — 5 months ago
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MHD Irritation: Overrating of those goals where the scorer flicks the ball behind them

Probably been covered before on here but was reminded of it with Semenyo's goal today.

Good finish but surely we have seen it done a thousand times now, it's not *that* hard a skill to pull off in the great scheme of things.

Yet for some reason commentators and pundits treat it like witchcraft...

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u/jacksonkeir — 5 months ago
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  1. John Filan

  2. Gary Charles

  3. Danny Granville

  4. Graham Hyde

  5. Craig Short

  6. Rob Ullathorne

  7. Robbie Van Der Laan

  8. Stephen Hughes

  9. Bruce Dyer

  10. Michael "Micky" Evans

  11. Stewart Casteldine

Yes, I have indeed been clearing out the attic.

Peter Beardsley at Bolton!

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u/jacksonkeir — 6 months ago