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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 70 ...
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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 Man ...
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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 itself. ...
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Bundesliga Ghost Games highlight a refereeing problem
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Saturday, June 13, 2020
German "ghost games" have presented soccer with a unique opportunity to explore ...
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College Soccer (Part 3): A Dreamland where only radical change can ensure a place in soccer's pyramid
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, May 20, 2020
So here comes the difficult bit. Trying to make a coherent whole ...
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The vital street soccer ingredient -- that early freedom to mess about
Youth Soccer Insider, Paul Gardner - Monday, May 18, 2020
We hear so much talk from so many involved people about the ...
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Men's College Soccer (Part 2): 1972 to 2020, the years of the draft ... and inertia
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Saturday, May 16, 2020
The 1971 Division 1 Final (Howard 3 St Louis 2) played in ...
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Sixty years of trying to assess men's college soccer (Part 1)
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, May 13, 2020
College soccer -- the men's version -- has been going through something ...
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From Quarantine -- A Memoir: Me, soccer, Stanley Matthews, the Potteries and Arnold Bennett
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Sunday, April 19, 2020
The immobility of quarantine at least gives one time to think, to ...
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Between the lines with the back shoulder, not forgetting the low-block 5-3-2
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, April 6, 2020
When people start using arcane language to make matters clearer, you can ...
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Messi yellow card exposes the soccer rules snafu
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, March 6, 2020
Playing in a dangerous manner is what goalkeepers are doing every time ...
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Wow! UEFA nails Man City -- and how
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Sunday, February 16, 2020
Something to classify alongside flying pigs: one of soccer's richest clubs being ...
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How much longer can soccer put up with the clueless IFAB?
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, February 14, 2020
Surely it is time to cry Enough! and do away with the ...
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Soccer and technological doping
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Sunday, February 2, 2020
The phrase "technological doping" has been hovering over sports -- all of ...
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The EPL puts on a show -- only the referees disappoint
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, December 30, 2019
The level of English Premier League play and the entertainment value have ...
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An object lesson in how to ignore Latino soccer
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, December 2, 2019
You will know, I think, the medical tale -- a surgical joke ...
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U.S. Soccer coaching courses in Spanish? Not a big deal.
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, November 25, 2019
So U.S. Soccer has decided to run coaching instruction courses ... in ...
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Fiasco in Brazil: U.S. Soccer must take most of the blame for the U-17 failure
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Thursday, November 7, 2019
The sorry story of the USA's drubbing at the Under-17 World Cup ...
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High scoring adds sparkle to playoffs -- but MLS should look closely at faulty refereeing
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, October 23, 2019
The single-game playoff format has much to recommend it. The game has ...
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The misuse of VAR, the sins of goalkeepers ... and a big thank you to Lee Dixon
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Thursday, September 26, 2019
From the English Premier League comes more evidence that VAR -- a ...
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Goalkeepers revisited
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Goalkeepers slamming into an opponent, often making violent contact with his head, ...
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To the U.S. Soccer Federation . . . In Anger
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, September 9, 2019
My congratulations to the United States Soccer Federation. The ignorance, the arrogance, ...
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Another colossal VAR gaffe in England
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Referee Mike Dean never looked at the replays. In the EPL version ...
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The devious problem of tactical fouling
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, August 23, 2019
Stand in his way, pull his shirt, trip him -- nothing too ...
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A weekend with the VARmints
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, August 19, 2019
No apologies for returning, yet again, to this VAR business. It is ...
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The joys of picardia vs. the boredom of tactics
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, August 12, 2019
Diego Maradona has always known about soccer's extra dimension. Even as a ...
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VARs -- a new elite group among referees, something soccer does not need
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Saturday, July 13, 2019
The responsibility for what happens on the field during a soccer game ...
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Memories of Chumpitaz and Cubillas: Welcome back Peru
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Saturday, July 6, 2019
That Brazil should have reached the final of the 2019 Copa America ...
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The VAR/goalkeeper mess -- an IFAB production
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, June 26, 2019
The International Football Association Board -- the IFAB -- has presented us ...
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Ukraine vs. South Korea -- an unlikely final to an unusual U-20 World Cup
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Thursday, June 13, 2019
An under-20 world championship without Brazil, Germany, Ghana, Spain, Russia, England and ...
