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Random thoughts on systems, goalkeepers, and referees
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Thursday, September 23, 2021
That concussion protocol is often not being taken seriously, and not proper ...
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Good bye Jimmy Greaves, the boy-genius of English soccer
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, September 20, 2021
My thoughts and opinions about soccer, a somewhat incoherent bustling jumble, receiv ...
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Now who's making soccer's rules? Is it IFAB? Or the English Premier League?
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, August 30, 2021
A week or so ago I was busy damning FIFA and IF ...
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Soccer: A sport handicapped by its own lack of vision
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, August 20, 2021
UEFA has ditched the away-goals rule. Good news or bad news? Neithe ...
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FIFA and IFAB still dodging the question: Does heading have a future?
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, August 3, 2021
We now have the FA researchers sitting on a mountain of researc ...
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A brutal experience for Mexico's Chucky Lozano
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, July 26, 2021
Brutality? In soccer? Not very often, I would think. I don't ev ...
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Quite a weekend -- Italy wins at Wembley and Messi's Argentina triumphs in the Maracana
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, July 16, 2021
There has always been a lot of the "cometh the hour, come ...
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Here we go again -- another s-crappy final
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Pep Guardiola-- the world's greatest soccer coach, it seems -- had assur ...
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The return of Atlanta brilliance? Not yet.
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, April 13, 2021
My aim was to see whether the Frank De Boer blight h ...
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New medical research may shine unwelcome light on soccer's old, old problem
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, April 6, 2021
So U.S. Soccer is to implement concussion substitutions in 2021. Well, abo ...
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Thank you, Emil Cohill. In memory of a wonderful human being and one of soccer's very best servants.
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Thursday, April 1, 2021
This must genuinely be a case of less meaning more. Emil Cohi ...
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Once more, soccer flirts with tragedy
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, March 17, 2021
I return, yet again, and without apology, to the role of goalkeepe ...
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The Road to Robo-ref: Tales from VAR-off places
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, March 5, 2021
A big toe offside? Can that really qualify as "gaining an advantag ...
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Shawcross a brilliant signing ... says Inter Miami coach Neville
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Back in 2010 Ryan Shawcross was big news in English soccer. No ...
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Neville's arrival at Inter Miami -- is this cronyism?
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, February 2, 2021
So Phil Neville will be Inter Miami's new coach. Is this, ...
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Concussions a problem? How about some more research?
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Sunday, January 17, 2021
Soccer's reaction to the concussion issue has been a joke. But ...
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Coaching, coaches ... and me
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, January 13, 2021
My sincere thanks to the United Soccer Coaches for handing me the ...
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Personal, tangential, memories of the unforgettables -- Pele and Maradona
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, December 18, 2020
I treasure memories of both those guys. I saw much more ...
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Saturday morning soccer with the Sons of Anak and a smattering of onlookers
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Our opponents were always teams of working class boys, rather scrawny-looking lad ...
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Rule-obsession can blind referees to game reality
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Sunday, September 27, 2020
The world of pro soccer is not where you go if you' ...
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Words, words, words ... Part 2 -- Guru words
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Sunday, September 6, 2020
The idea is to make the words interesting, even downright fascinating. ...
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Words, words, words ... Part 1 -- Rulebook Words
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, September 2, 2020
It happens in every game. The referee goes up to a playe ...
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The success of MLS is Back -- but are the results misleading?
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, August 12, 2020
The MLS Is Back tournament, championship, extravaganza, whatever it was, worked o ...
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Bournemouth, victimized by a colossal VAR/Hawk-Eye error, deserves compensation
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, July 29, 2020
If there's one factor above all others that thoroughly incenses me abo ...
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Pochettino to Atlanta? Or has Bob Bradley proved the new coach doesn't have to be Latino?
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, July 27, 2020
When Atlanta announced that it had signed Frank De Boer as t ...
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Twellman's curious praise for roughhouse soccer
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, July 15, 2020
If you were a season-ticket holder with a big club and fou ...
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Was British soccer ever that great?
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, July 6, 2020
Some years ago I read an article in the English press th ...
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How I somehow escaped from freezing to death during a soccer game
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Another episode of quarantine-induced nostalgia has surfaced. We're going back over ...
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Soccer's disgrace: unchecked goalkeeper violence
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Saturday, June 20, 2020
I return to the worrying tale of Eric Garcia, the young M ...
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The EPL's shaky return, and another goalkeeper victim
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Thursday, June 18, 2020
Alas for the English Premier League, usually so deft at promoting itsel ...
