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Whether it was Archimedes’s eureka moment in the bath, Isaac Newton’s in the orchard or Doc Brown’s in the toilet while hanging a clock, many of the world’s most important discoveries have been made in the most unlikely locations. It is a list to which we can now presumably add the recording studio in which Rio Ferdinand presents his what-it-says-on-the-tin Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast. Of course, in discovering the principle of buoyancy, the law of universal gravitation or how best to transform a sports car with gull-wing doors into a time machine, the aforementioned scientists all chanced upon inspired moments of enlightenment that had never previously occurred to anybody else. When the lightbulb lit up over Steven Gerrard’s head while in conversation with Rio, he had clearly just figured out something rival fans have known for the best part of 30 years. Not so much a mic-drop as a penny-drop moment, it finally dawned on the former England international why the team with which he won 114 caps repeatedly failed to live up to expectation.
I’ve been reading the acute tactical analysis in all media outlets of the trend for taking supremely well-thought out kick-offs where the ball is played to the corner touchline, enabling an early high press, etc etc. I recall that when John Beck was manager of Cambridge United and employed this exact tactic, his team was derided for hoofing the game back to the Stone Age. And if memory serves, Beck was even more tactically astute – he kept the grass in the corners of the Abbey long to keep the ball in play. When do we get Jonathan Wilson’s treatise on Nu Beckball and the enduring genius of Charles Hughes?” – Michael Hann.
I only read Big Website of course (ahem) but while I was catching up on the latest edition of Architectural Digest, I came across ‘Soccer Player Ben Chilwell’s Home Brings California-Cool to Surrey, England’. The certainly-in-no-way-puff piece breathlessly states that ‘the English national team member’s house channels midcentury modern and LA contemporary in equal measure’. Rather wonderfully, it also quotes Chilwell as saying that ‘I love my sleep, so being two minutes away from where we train was a big draw’, which must be of great comfort to the player who signed for Strasbourg at the start of September” – Noble Francis.
Re: strange football lavatory stories (yesterday’s Football Daily). On a wall in our loo is a framed 25-share certificate confirming investment in Berwick Rangers, the club based in England but playing in Scotland’s Lowland League. When I bought the shares they cost £1 each. I’ve failed in my inquiries into how much they’re worth now. My wife has her view” – Nigel Robson.
This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions.
Continue reading…Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Whether it was Archimedes’s eureka moment in the bath, Isaac Newton’s in the orchard or Doc Brown’s in the toilet while hanging a clock, many of the world’s most important discoveries have been made in the most unlikely locations. It is a list to which we can now presumably add the recording studio in which Rio Ferdinand presents his what-it-says-on-the-tin Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast. Of course, in discovering the principle of buoyancy, the law of universal gravitation or how best to transform a sports car with gull-wing doors into a time machine, the aforementioned scientists all chanced upon inspired moments of enlightenment that had never previously occurred to anybody else. When the lightbulb lit up over Steven Gerrard’s head while in conversation with Rio, he had clearly just figured out something rival fans have known for the best part of 30 years. Not so much a mic-drop as a penny-drop moment, it finally dawned on the former England international why the team with which he won 114 caps repeatedly failed to live up to expectation.I’ve been reading the acute tactical analysis in all media outlets of the trend for taking supremely well-thought out kick-offs where the ball is played to the corner touchline, enabling an early high press, etc etc. I recall that when John Beck was manager of Cambridge United and employed this exact tactic, his team was derided for hoofing the game back to the Stone Age. And if memory serves, Beck was even more tactically astute – he kept the grass in the corners of the Abbey long to keep the ball in play. When do we get Jonathan Wilson’s treatise on Nu Beckball and the enduring genius of Charles Hughes?” – Michael Hann.I only read Big Website of course (ahem) but while I was catching up on the latest edition of Architectural Digest, I came across ‘Soccer Player Ben Chilwell’s Home Brings California-Cool to Surrey, England’. The certainly-in-no-way-puff piece breathlessly states that ‘the English national team member’s house channels midcentury modern and LA contemporary in equal measure’. Rather wonderfully, it also quotes Chilwell as saying that ‘I love my sleep, so being two minutes away from where we train was a big draw’, which must be of great comfort to the player who signed for Strasbourg at the start of September” – Noble Francis.Re: strange football lavatory stories (yesterday’s Football Daily). On a wall in our loo is a framed 25-share certificate confirming investment in Berwick Rangers, the club based in England but playing in Scotland’s Lowland League. When I bought the shares they cost £1 each. I’ve failed in my inquiries into how much they’re worth now. My wife has her view” – Nigel Robson.This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading…
