Cultured Football #201
Guru Nanak. Clean Sheets Burnley. Defeats Teach Nothing. David Moyes. Neymar's Butterfly Effect.
Guru Nanak
By Sam Wainwright for Terrace Edition
There is little football played with a more grandoise backdrop then at Guru Nanak FC. This photo essay is a delight.
Bonus Read: San Mames: Transcending
[Dave Harry x Terrace Edition]
A trip to Bilbao, and especially the new San Mames, is definitely on my travel wish list. This piece probably bumped it up a few notches.
The danger in having it all
By Huw Davies for
Burnley are breaking all kinds of records for their defensive solidity. Yet, whilst it is getting results, their risk averse style is not winning over too many neutral fans.
Bonus Read: Burnley goalkeeper on clean-sheet record, JJ Watt wager and Sunderland penalty saves
[Simoen Gholam x Sky Sports]
James Trafford didn’t have the greatest debut campaigns last year at Burnley but he’s more than making up for it this season.
Defeats teach you nothing at all
By for
“Defeat teaches you about as much as a punch in the face. It hurts and haunts you, it climbs into bed with you and keeps you awake. It turns you against the world, then it turns you against yourself. It infects your reason and your judgment.”
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David Moyes was Man Utd's canary in the coal mine: Everton boss' Old Trafford failure should have highlighted growing rot inside the Red Devils
By Richard Martin for Goal
Even now, when so many others have tried and failed, it is hard to argue that David Moyes was the right choice to replace Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United. Yet his time there should have been enough to show those leading the club of how much work it needed. Sadly for them, the lessons have not only been learned from, they’ve been repeated.
The Fallout from Neymar's Transfer to PSG
By for
The transfer that saw Neymar leave Barcelona for PSG can hardly be called a butterfly effect moment - a £200m transfer is hardly the small cause on which the chaos theory idea is based - yet undoubtedly it changed the whole direction of football. Looking back there were clear winners and losers from the deal. And it is hard to argue that the player wasn’t among the latter.
Bonus Read: All Eyes on Palmeiras, the Best Team in the Americas
[Kelvin Loyola x Urban Pitch]
Neymar might now be happily back at Santos, yet Palmeiras currently seems to be the club to be at.
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Last Week’s Most Read: Narcoball
By for Football Heritage
Pablo Escobar and other drug lords fueled the rise of Colombian football in the 1970s and 1980s. Everyone knew where the money was coming from but they collectively opted to turn a blind eye as long as it meant success.