@GaryLineker@RestIsFootball@MicahRichards How do we win the 2026 World Cup? Specifically, is the high press attacking football we want to see (and that wins trophies) going to work in 40-degree heat and blistering humidity? What can the guys say about playing styles in difficult conditions?
🧵On why penalties aren’t a lottery and how England try to shift the odds in their favour. A daunting individual responsibility becomes about the team. There’s a great scene in @mrJamesGraham’s #DearEngland that explores this, too!
A subtle England penalty shootout innovation (since 2021) is their deliberate, structured & functional use of social psychology.
Here, Saka is picked up by John Stones after his penalty, to swiftly welcome him back in the team.
What did England do and why did they do it?
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@heroesandhumans@MrAncelotti@ChampionsLeague@realmadrid Really enjoyed this. One Carlo Ancelotti sidebar I love: he had a background role in a Star Trek movie! The perfect person to deal with the intergalactic egos on the Starship Enterprise? 🤨 https://t.co/MJKJsUYaRg
"In a future, post-apocalyptic LA brought about by nuclear decimation, Gary Neville must live in underground bunkers to protect himself from radiation, mutants and bandits." #Fallout
Jack Robinson, Ben Osborn, Oliver Burke, Ben Brereton Diaz… Joe Worrall!
Chris Wilder is such a #NFFC banter-era obsessed maniac. Bet he runs the @dalesilvermat3 account when he’s not signing our lads…
@maxrushden At Forest today and not sure my head’s right after what happened to Steve Cooper. I won’t give my ticket away but may have to hook myself at half-time if I’m still not ‘at it’…
Just rediscovered this piece from 2013 about unintentionally scary kids TV characters. @simonreyn still having nightmares about Orville? https://t.co/tknvdBUyUz
@mattforde@RRD1865@TBPFR This was a lovely ep, Matt. Terrific footballer and seemed like such a nice bloke. His goal against Reading is a great #NFFC memory.
Just gutted about Trevor Francis. Scorer of the goal that transformed Nottingham Forest forever. A Million Pound Miracle Man #NFFC (pic via @Art_of_Football)