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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 ...
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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 explo ...
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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 who ...
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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 t ...
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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 ...
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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 somethi ...
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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, ...
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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 c ...
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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 ti ...
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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 bei ...
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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 t ...
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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 ...
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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 ha ...
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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 jo ...
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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 ... ...
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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 C ...
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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 h ...
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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 -- ...
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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 hea ...
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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 arroganc ...
