If this were to happen, Vidal would be expected to rush out and stagger a defence just behind Pirlo, recalling César Luis Menotti’s dictum that “two footballers in a line is a sin”. The understandable objection to any notion of stationing Vidal in the defence is that any midfield deli...
Chadband, Ian
They all want to be footballers and are pretty cross when they can’t be. Yesterday a couple of lads came round trying to sell the broadband that took forever to be installed in the road. I only know that from their leaflet. I don’t speak estuary jafakan. If we want a workforce...
It was too thick for us to get a view of the land we were passing through, though we knew from the map that our river must be passing through chains of hills from time to time. Nowhere did we find a place where we could have landed: although the jungle did not actually spread ...
While headgear can protect footballers from being concussed during a match, no one knows the long-term effects of repeated “sub-concussive” blows to the head. Delaney says that while there is indirect evidence that a career in soccer can lead to dementia, no one has yet found a sure lin...
It’s a stupid game, and dangerous too. Twenty-two men fight for two hours to kick a ball into a net. They get more black eyes than goals. On dry, hard pitches (球场) they break their bones. On muddy ones they sprain (扭伤) their muscles. Footballers must be mad. And why do pe...
ll watch the games but probably not live. And I’ll watch a lot of other games. What I find entertaining and fulfilling in a sporting sense is watching good footballers and well coached, competitive teams. Arsenal only provide half of that. And maybe not even half when this transfer ...
The People (London, England)
Delaney says that while there is indirect evidence that a career in soccer can lead to dementia, no one has yet found a sure link between the two. He says proving a link would mean monitoring hundreds of footballers for three or four decades—and that would take a lot of funding. ...