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Adeus Pele -- my 17-year-old mentor
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, December 30, 2022
Pele became, during the 1958 World Cup, probably the most important influen ...
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Random thoughts after a great World Cup final
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Sunday, December 18, 2022
Lionel Messi got his reward. I almost feel that the sport ow ...
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Departing friends
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, December 16, 2022
The deaths of Grant Wahl and Alex Yannis have left me wi ...
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Will Qatar 2022 be a Qatarstrophe?
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, November 21, 2022
The excitement of red-hot fan support for the host team is n ...
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MLS Cup 2022: At Last -- a final to be remembered
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, November 7, 2022
MLS Cup 2022 gave us a bit of everything that soccer h ...
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When Video Review gets too clever, it's time to rely on a referee's instincts
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, November 7, 2022
Baseball, we're told, is a game of inches. Right, and soccer ...
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Can soccer back up the claim that its rules contribute to the safety and welfare of players?
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Thursday, October 20, 2022
What the treatment of these head-clashes shows is that neither in M ...
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Part 2: Soccer in the Balance
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Sunday, September 18, 2022
Of all the groups involved in soccer, I would rank referees ...
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Soccer in the Balance (Part 1)
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Soccer is, and should be, a fluid sport played in many differe ...
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An extraordinary refereeing oversight
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, July 26, 2022
A rather unpleasant article popped up on the website run by PR ...
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LAFC's moves cast the shadow of the dreaded elephants graveyard
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Saturday, July 9, 2022
Total bafflement. That pretty much sums up my response to LAFC's rece ...
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The tragedy of Scott Vermillion must not be ignored or allowed to fade away
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, July 5, 2022
The early end to his life, the agonies he went through, t ...
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More subs means better soccer? Don't bet on it.
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, June 24, 2022
You will remember the famous Anatoliy Puzach ... No? ... Ukrainian-born forwa ...
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MLS goes wildly off the rails for 90 disgraceful seconds
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, June 13, 2022
I have been enjoying MLS games so far this season: plenty ...
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Real Madrid's Thibaut Courtois: goalkeeping as it should be
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Thursday, June 2, 2022
It takes us back many, many years, to 1878 when the sport ...
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Another new World Cup ball means more ballderdash
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Here they come ... the astounding, amazing, unprecedented, truly wondrous details ...
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A second try for Carlos Cordeiro? No way.
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, February 28, 2022
When Carlos Cordeiro appeared on the U.S. soccer scene, I dubbed h ...
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Yet again -- another protocol farce, this one from Leeds
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Leeds United's Robin Koch suffered a nasty head injury in last week ...
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To face the crisis of its heading problem, soccer must consider changing its rules. A ban on long goal kicks is an obvious option.
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, January 31, 2022
We now know so much about the long-term effects -- particularly t ...
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Part 2: Learning about soccer -- from jazz, and from the words of a great poet
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Friday, December 24, 2021
Does this complication of soccer improve the game, make it more entertainin ...
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Learning about soccer -- from jazz, and from the words of a great poet (Part 1)
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, December 8, 2021
This starts way back, way, way back, during the 1940s when ...
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Small-town Spennymoor FC at tiny Brewery Field hosts a major moment for world soccer
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Monday, October 25, 2021
Maybe, amid the welter of La Liga, Serie A, EPL, Bundesliga, ...
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Liverpool and Man City give us a game to remember
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, October 6, 2021
I'll start this by going back three years, almost to the da ...
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A Goal in a Thousand
SoccerTalk with Paul Gardner, Paul Gardner - Wednesday, September 29, 2021
I'm not the praying sort, but how I wished for that goa ...
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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 ...
