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The FA Cup: A Good Idea that became a Fairy Tale and then a Horror Story
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, May 20, 2019
Manchester City has won the FA Cup. With a resounding 6-0 wipe-out ...
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Oh dear, defenders feel threatened ... again
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Sunday, April 28, 2019
Jan Vertonghen, Tottenham's Belgian defender, is worried. "I think we have to ...
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A good referee decision nixed by a woeful VAR verdict
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Sunday, March 17, 2019
The various shades and intricacies of VAR continue to intrigue -- and, ...
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Fan violence and the dangers of encouraging passion
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, March 12, 2019
While MLS Commissioner Don Garber has been getting himself into trouble for ...
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The opening week -- and yet another appeal to MLS for a Best Assist award
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, March 8, 2019
The disappointment -- flop, really -- of the first 2019 MLS weekend ...
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A diving call in England that invites open derision
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, February 19, 2019
At issue: Did Harry Maguire foul Son Heung Min? Or was the ...
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At last Burnley gets a penalty kick -- but Coach Dyche still has a major problem
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, February 4, 2019
Sean Dyche. Coach at Burnley, in the English Premier League. He's having ...
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Trying to fathom Atlanta's switch from Latin to Dutch
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, January 21, 2019
When the new coach takes over a team that is going through ...
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Man City 9 Burton Albion 0: The fantasy world of cup soccer
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, January 11, 2019
I recently watched a fantastic soccer occasion, one that must, I'm quite ...
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Robbie Mustoe and the 'lazy Brazilians'
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, January 2, 2019
The game had been, well, not bad. Quite good, actually. Two late ...
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Sigi Schmid's Soccer Saga
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, December 28, 2018
Sigi Schmid, who died on Christmas Day at age 65, will be ...
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Atlanta goes Dutch -- not a great idea
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, December 24, 2018
The whoops of joy emanating from Atlanta to announce the signing of ...
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MLS Cup 2018: The long-awaited festival of futbol
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, December 4, 2018
It has been my opinion for some 20 years or more that ...
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Berhalter, a safe choice, has the chance to shake up the U.S. Soccer ostriches
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, November 27, 2018
The long and tedious wait for the crowning of a new U.S. ...
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MLS: A league shackled by its own regulations
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, November 23, 2018
You may have noticed that a new record has been established in ...
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America in search of a style (Part 2): The USA's shameful refusal to recognize its Latino talent
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, November 9, 2018
The distinction between Latin and European playing styles is of vital importance ...
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America in search of a style (Part 1): The never-ending era of the ad hoc teams
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, November 5, 2018
The same old question keeps coming up: what style of soccer should ...
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We expected a rousing Liverpool vs. Manchester City game. We got a boring Jurgen Klopp vs. Pep Guardiola stalemate
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, October 9, 2018
It was a busy Sunday for me, so I limited my soccer ...
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Thoughts on the Englishness of the English Premier League
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, October 2, 2018
The English Premier League certainly displayed its diversity credentials this past week ...
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England: 'We talk about diving all the time ...'
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Reading the English press, listening to the British commentators, it's quite impossible ...
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The lectures that referees give to players: Meaningless? Embarrassing? Childish? Farcical? Probably all of the above
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, September 5, 2018
I have been trying for quite a few years now to persuade ...
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Today's coaches could learn a lot from Ron Newman (1934-2018)
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, September 3, 2018
Ron Newman, without any doubt, was the Bill Veeck, or maybe it ...
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D.C. United vs. Orlando -- and a glaring VAR failure that MLS needs to explain
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, August 13, 2018
If referees are reluctant to penalize goalkeepers (obviously, they are), now we ...
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A splendid All-Star evening in Atlanta -- only the ending was off-key
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, August 3, 2018
From Atlanta, there was -- almost -- nothing but good news. A ...
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Soccer's way with words -- and the 'performing' of the national anthem
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, July 30, 2018
So George Orwell was right? Words, it seems, are losing their mean ...
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World Cup 2018 Part 2: The VAR Revolution
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Saturday, July 21, 2018
How about VAR -- a revolutionary development in refereeing -- how did ...
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World Cup 2018 Part 1: The French Revolution
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Thursday, July 19, 2018
The signs that the 2018 World Cup was not going to be ...
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The set-piece mindset: not a good idea for soccer
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, July 13, 2018
Yikes! Here they come again! The set-piece merchants, the soccer commentators who ...
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VAR totally fails to seize its chance for glory
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, July 2, 2018
If ever there was a tricky soccer situation that was waiting to ...
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Colombia's miracle escape from soccer's red-card ejection rule
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, June 29, 2018
A good deal of attention has been focused on the functioning of ...
