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Have you ever gotten lost?
This post has literally nothing to do with soccer/football. The only time the name of that sport appears is the previous sentence. I just thought I’d…
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Isaiah
Banking on a Miracle
A preview of the Galatasaray vs Barça Europa League round of 16 second leg
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Isaiah

February 2022

January 2022

Farewell, Coutinho, the second of the three Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Only one left
Phillippe Coutinho is at Aston Villa now. On loan. With Barça so desperate to have him gone that they are picking up a hunk of his salary. And an…
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Kevin Williams
Ousmane Dembele and how to kill good will, aka "I gotta be free, I gotta be me"
We have all seen the headlines, read the social media nattering and heard the boos. Then came the news: Samuel Umtiti, Mr. In It For the Money Happy to…
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You're In Safe Hands With Me. Maybe. Probably not.
The art of goalkeeping, as taught to me through pain
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December 2021

Dembele, money, acrimony and what to believe when the answer is nothing
Ousmane Dembele is leaving FC Barcelona. Maybe. Or maybe he’s staying. He’s asked for eleventy bajillion Euros and a pony. Maybe. People are falling for…
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Kevin Williams
Beware the danger of false prophets in the form of world-changing transfers
Ferran Torres is here, amid breathless exhalations of rapture, anticipation of the next “missing thing that will make everything right.” Sonnets…
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Kevin Williams
Identity, great players and and massive, Brobdingnagian piles of nonsense
Identity. Culers hear that word so much that we think we know what it means, when it has so many different meanings that nobody, often even the people…
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The end is always hard for a player, because without hope you don't really have much of anything
WWYD is one of those fun acronyms that has fallen into disuse because people don’t really know how to respond. Or if they do, it’s within the template…
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Kevin Williams
Xavi, Barça and what did you expect, really? Fantasyland?
It’s been about a thousand years since Xavi arrived, borne into the manager’s cauldron on a carpet of hopes, dreams and notions of “right way” ness…
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Kevin Williams

October 2021

CLASICO WEEK
The most important thing you will read this week
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