The Club on the Tiber
By Richard Whittle for Richard’s Bella Italia and Calcio Substack
This might, on the face of it, not appear to be an article about football. But it very much is about football and where the decisions that shape it often take place.
Bonus Read: The Peculiar Afterlife of Brescia
[Charlie Rhodes x Calcio Collective]
Brescia Calcio is dead. And yet it still exists.
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What Manchester City Stole From Us All
By Sham for The Non-Negotiables
I spent quite some time debating whether to include anything on the Manchester City verdict. Surely, part of me felt, people have already had enough about this whole debacle. Ultimately, however, I felt that it was too big a story to keep out and went for this opinion from an Arsenal perspective.
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London to Rijeka and life as a professional footballer in Croatia
By Chris Burton for Goal
Not long ago, young English footballers rarely looked abroad to expand their careers. That, however, is changing. The search of regular football saw Daniel Adu-Adjei leaving Bournemouth for Rijeka where he has found bigger football world waiting for him.
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Each week on Cultured Football we pick the five great football stories from the previous seven days.
Former Chelsea coach on his 17 years at Stamford Bridge and what he learned from the experience
By Adam Bate for Sky Sports
During his 17 years at Chelsea, Ed Brand has gone from being a player in the academy to coaching others. In this interview he talks about the experiences that formed his ideas on coaching, from developing young players to working with senior professionals, and why adaptability matters more than imposing a rigid philosophy. There’s plenty written about how players develop, this offers rare insight into how coaches do so.
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A Dispatch From Extremadura
By Jordan Thomas for La Liga and Beyond
With only brief spells in LaLiga - often followed by financial collapse and rebirth - Extremadura has never occupied much space on Spain’s football map. Yet the region that has retained a character increasingly difficult to find elsewhere still carries its own footballing ambitions.
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In Case You Missed It Here’s Last Week’s Most Read: I’m Picking Up Bad Vibrations
By Phil Derbyshire for Modern Football is Rubbish
Some managers seem to earn a reputation and keep getting jobs in spite of how much and often they fail. This is a two-footed tackle of an article on those managers.
Thanks for the feature Paul, great newsletter this week🙌