Mike Rutherford

MSc Advanced Performance Football Coaching | PGCE | FAW/UEFA A License & Elite Youth A |🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ⚽️

[Paul Spacey ⚽️ @PaulSpacey]

No tricks needed.

Just body feints and confident close control.

[Paul Spacey ⚽️ @PaulSpacey]

You don’t need to learn 20 skills.

Just get really good at one.

[Paul McGuinness @PaulMcG8]

Awareness of opponent’s position & movement are vital in defending - to know what’s happening to the ball & opponent requires constant scanning back & forth, peripheral vision with quick glances & using the arms as antenna to feel opponents movement when you look at the ball

[Jamiroquai @JamiroquaiHQ]

Dance! 🪩 Nothing left for me to do but dance. ‘Canned Heat’ was released on this day in 1999… Can’t wait to get back out there and continue grooving!

[Mike Rutherford @MikeRutherford_]

@BizzoBond 🤣🤣🤣

[BIZZO. @BizzoBond]

Knew I’d seen Rico’s fighting style before somewhere. #UsykRico

[MP𖤐 @MagicalPep]

Busquets and Araújo were put through a high-speed drill… Busquets didn’t rely on pace, just intelligence 🧠💙❤️

[Barça Universal @BarcaUniversal]

🚨🚨 Frenkie de Jong drops an invaluable piece of ball knowledge:

"People invented the myth that Guardiola’s Barça only played one-touch football. They played one or two touches when the situation required it."

"If you are the free man and there is no other free man, it makes no sense to pass the ball. You have to carry it, fix a defender and create a free teammate."

"I think many people do not understand football much, or they simply have a different opinion to mine. So it is difficult to agree on whether I play well or not."

"Some journalists understand football, but there are more who do not understand it than those who do."

[Naninho @SrNaninho]

🔙 JOSÉ MOURINHO: “Si quieres presionar alto y tus delanteros no presionan, no puedes presionar alto. Si quieres bajar el bloque más cerca de tu portería y tus delanteros no bajan, no tienes bloque. Eso significa que sin delanteros que trabajen bien defensivamente, un equipo no puede defender bien. Al mismo tiempo, equipos sin delanteros con una media alta de goles, es muy difícil conseguir cosas importantes”.

📹 Replay (YouTube)

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@NoContextKeaneo 🤣🤣🤣

[No Context Keane @NoContextKeaneo]

Enzo Maresca’s first day of training after he takes over from Pep at Manchester City 😆

[Jed Davies @TPiMBW]

"To get to the opponent's penalty area faster does not mean playing better. Playing better is getting there with better conditions." - Xabi Alonso (Page 47, Chapter 3)

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[Jed Davies @TPiMBW]

"Guardiola expressed the same idea from a different angle. “There are two kinds of coaches,” he said, paraphrasing Lillo, “those who begin their attack from their own penalty box and those who begin it when their rivals take their goal kick.” The line is often read as an argument for pressing. It is also an argument about the build-up. If you begin your attack from your own penalty box, you must be able to read the opponent’s shape from the first pass and know, before the ball has crossed the halfway line, which route forward the opponent has made available." - Page 50, 'ball (2026) available from https://t.co/vfNWk4vh3T or Amazon

[Advanced Football Academy @AdvFtbAcad]

1v1 possession drill

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[Jed Davies @TPiMBW]

“There is always a free man. Always. You know why? Because there is always the solution to give the ball to the goalkeeper. When the match begins, we are eleven against eleven, but when you have the ball, there are ten of you that want to take it, not eleven.”
— Xavi Hernández - Page 81, 'ball (2026) available from https://t.co/vfNWk4uJel or Amazon

[James Allcott @jamesallcott]

“Enrique is doing positional play ideas. Flick is also using positional play to a certain extent”

@Jon_Mackenzie explains the misconceptions around Pep’s version of positional play and how it has influenced football on The Ripple Effect🌐

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@messedupfoods @Craig_Map

[Then/Now Sport @xThen_Now]

Garrincha, a legendary Brazilian footballer, is often hailed as the greatest right winger in the sport’s history. Renowned for his creativity and dazzling dribbling skills, he starred alongside Pelé and Didí in Brazil’s World Cup triumphs of 1958 and 1962.

[DIEGO @DiegoArchives]

Que este video exista, es patrimonio argentino

[Advanced Football Academy @AdvFtbAcad]

Master 1v1s

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