The blog
Analysis and match commentary
Games I have watched properly, written up the way I would present them to a squad. Tactics, decisions, individual jobs within a shape, and the occasional argument with a pundit. New pieces go up as the fixtures come.
Premier League preview
Tottenham against Aston Villa: two teams with the same problem and different ways of hiding it
A coach's preview of Saturday at Tottenham. Spurs have not scored in the league yet, Villa have lost three straight, and only one of those is a shape problem.
Match analysis
Liverpool 3-1 Tottenham: a rotated side, a real performance, and one number that finally moved
A coach's breakdown of the Carabao Cup tie at Anfield: the goal that ended a drought, a returning ten, and a full back asked to do a job that was never his.
Indian football
ISL 2026-27 starts in October, and the calendar is the real story for Indian coaches
Thirteen teams, a seven month season and the ISL Cup playoffs back. What the new Indian Super League season changes for anyone coaching in it.
About this blog
What gets written up here, and what does not
I write about games I have actually watched, usually twice. The first viewing is for the story of the match, the second is for the thing I want to explain: a pressing trigger that worked, a full back who was left alone twice in the same ten minutes, a substitution that changed the shape rather than just the personnel.
Most pieces cover the Premier League, European competition and Indian football, because those are the games in front of me. Some are previews, written before a team sheet exists, which means they are about problems rather than predictions. Some are post-match, which is where the honest work happens, because a scoreline hides as much as it tells you.
What I do not write is transfer speculation or anything I cannot see on the pitch. If a piece here makes a claim about a match, it is because I watched that passage of play and could show it to a room of players.